Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Think of the opportunities for graft in all this. When Tammany comes back into its rightful zamindary, taxes can be raised on all buildings and all land beneath, large districts condemned, appraised at almost zero (on account of the high taxes), paid for at that price, and a low - cost, tax-free, housing project begun under governmental aegis...
...have to walk; for already I did have to carry Junior. And here on one side was an exhibition of fertilizing machines and on the other a cafeteria: in the center a Persian garden. A real Persian garden too! And I was sorely tempted to lie beneath the bough...
...Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough...
...metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones during the past fortnight disclosed the following...
...into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth and justice which must be if existence is to justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side New York skyline. The exotic beauty and youthful freshness of the young daughter, Miriamne, hypnotize him but he cannot give himself to love for the crushing burden of his disillusion and the gnawing vacuum of unfaith make life impossible. Track, the guilty gangster...