Word: biennium
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...twelve essays in The Wind is Rising, covering the twelve grimmest months in the bloody biennium from August 1939 to August 1941, chart the wavering course of Tomlinson's adjustment to the fact that this war is different. He writes: "I still think war an obscene outrage on the intelligence. I should not be in the least upset by what Communists call the downfall of British Imperialism. I see no reason to alter a line of what I wrote of war and peace in Mars His Idiot. . . . But this challenge by the Nazis is ultimate. . . . I know that some...
...watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
...Board of Education last fall had to submit a special tax levy to the voters. It was narrowly defeated (93,312-to-90,246) and the school year was shortened from ten to eight-and-one-half months. This fall a special tax levy for the next biennium was approved, but there is no certainty of a full term next year because revaluation of property may cut the board's income...