Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...built its week-to-week suspense on whether Van Doren will keep plunging or quit while he is so far ahead. By now, he risks little to keep going. It would take eleven tie games followed by a 21-0 defeat to wipe out his winnings. His income-tax bracket is so high that if he were defeated in a game that cost him, say, $20,000, he would actually be out of pocket only $2,200 (see chart). Of the $122,000 he has won, income taxes will let the unmarried, $4,400-a-year instructor keep perhaps...
...which dates all the way back to 1954. Even the "old hotels" like the Casablanca (built in 1951) and the Sherry Frontenac (1948), and even the 30-year-old Roney Plaza of J. Myer Schine,* whose room prices are right up in the top $32-to-$42-a-day bracket, were packing them...
...PRESENCE OF GRACE, by J. F. Powers. A collection of short stories that move about with impressive sureness in the U.S. Roman Catholic world of harried priests and puzzled parishioners, and put Author Powers in the highest bracket of his craft...
...speak or to say, 4-about, i A to go or to walk, # good, #better, - best, beautiful. A simple Picto sentence: I 'A. 9 Q-X I <- - 6 (She walks under the trees and speaks to a man). When it comes to more sophisticated Picto sentiments, th6 bracket is indispensable. ? J makes the substantive of a verb, i Qp to love ; [ (J J love. ^_ j means to symbolize. Thus it can be used in conjunction with p (flag) to mean nation, iPj , or in conjunction with d (the smallest element of a whole) to mean citizen...
...examination and proves socially acceptable (e.g., a member of the Free German Youth or the Para-Military Association for Sport and Technology), he still must make out on a 28% smaller monthly living allowance than a student from a farming or laboring family in the same general income bracket. (Living allowances are granted by the government to almost all students in institutions of higher education; tuition is free...