Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think there will be many Republican amendments offered. They can't be expected to offer amendments when they don't understand the bill." The tax proposals which President Roosevelt sent to Congress in March were aimed at two major ends: 1) Radical reform and simplification of the complex U. S. tax system by repeal of existing corporate taxes, substitution of a tax to be paid by corporations on their undistributed incomes, plus normal income tax to be paid by individual stock-holders on their dividends...
...joke to Britain's General Staff is the failure of the current recruiting campaign, because modern armies are twice as complex as those of 1914, it takes twice as long to train an efficient soldier. Since the announcement of new plans to mechanize the British cavalry, troopers have been scratching their heads over engine diagrams, the intricacies of caterpillar treads and short-wave wireless. Even the infantry has had to struggle with such new devices as the Boys rifle, a ponderous blunderbuss that weighs 35 lb., fires a 5-in. cartridge through the steel walls of tanks...
Throughout the six days of complex, technical testimony, the Senator-jurors had the painful experience of being forced to sit virtually speechless. When they had questions to ask, they scratched them on pieces of paper, sent them up by page to the presiding officer. Witnesses had to stand while testifying. First to be called was Lawyer Rankin. Stoutly he insisted that the $4,500 he had given Judge Ritter was payment on an honest debt-the sum for which he had bought out the assets of their partnership...
...Plautus will still be a name that is known by a favoured few, and the man of the future will look back to a couple of days after the Ides of April, A.D. 1936, and call it a glimmering of light in an age that was dark with a complex gloom...
...lifted from their positions. After every three sweeps (for a three-color design) of the contact the cylinder carrying the copper sheet rotates a notch. In effect the robot electrically scans the design line by line, much as a modern televisor scans an image. It does not matter how complex the pattern is. A signature scrawled on the copper sheet would come out faithfully reproduced in the fabric...