Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philip S. Land, S.J., assistant professor of economics at St. Louis University, declared in a newspaper interview that income-tax evasion is morally as well as legally wrong. Moralists who justify it on the grounds that some tax money finds its way into graft and some into pork-barrel projects are dead wrong, said Father Land. Despite some mistakes, the President and Congress "have given us a prudential judgment" in preparing the national budget and setting taxes. It is therefore "hard to conceive what more could be required of a legislature for a law binding in conscience...
...cost of any expansion will be great, and the resources to defray the cost are problematical," he continued. "Even on the basis of our present size, we have to scrape the barrel to provide for the needs of our scientists, and we face serious operating deficits. Without any expansion we need at least one more residential college to relieve the serious overcrowding of the existing ten. We must find the resources to meet all these costs before we shall be in the position to plan with any confidence for further expansion...
...speed and atomic-age heat, and every fast movement for the next hour and a half had a breathless here-we-go-again quality. It would have been just another dead-eye Fred taking pleasure in his fingerwork. except that Gulda's pianissimo was sweet as a barrel of honey, his legato glided like a gull, and his perfect shading gave each movement a convincing contour...
Chrysler showed off its new 300-h.p. Chrysler "300," the most powerful U.S.-built stock car. The hardtop "300" has a V-8 FirePower engine souped up with two four-barrel carburetors that give it a top speed of 140 m.p.h. Chrysler will begin production of the model next month, with a list price of around...
Film to Concrete. Among the new developments since Grove IV: ¶ The phonograph (called gramophone in British English), which in 1940 got 3½ pages plus a perfunctory listing under MECHANICAL APPLIANCES (along with barrel organs and pianolas). gets eight pages in 1954, including the comment that "all over Europe . . . American technicians are to be found with their spools of recording tape." ¶ Film music, with no listing in Grove IV, gets 16 pages documenting the art from its early catch-all scores (catalogued as The Slimy Viper, Gruesome Misterioso, Love's Response, etc.) to background music by such...