Word: confession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confess that I did not expect that the new British tariff system would work but I am bound to admit that it is producing remarkable results. . . . Three years ago Great Britain had dropped to third place in the list of exporting countries, but today she again stands first...
...story. Consequently Graves not only subtracted some 250,000 words, cutting the book down to about half its size, but he added some incidents and, in one case, a whole chapter. Principal interpolation was a meeting between David and Emily, just after Dora's death, in which they confess their love, spend the night together. Reviser Paine omitted this chapter, as well as Emily's subsequent suicide, changed the final paragraphs of Graves's telescoped ending to a feebler transcription of his own. But even with these changes and without Graves's explanatory, controversial foreword, this...
Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
What has become significant is that the experts who study ways and means of getting tax revenue plainly confess that there has to be a profit system. For Uncle Sam has gone into partnership with the productive capacity or earning power of individuals as well as companies. In a nutshell, the Government splits on a thirty-seventy basis on all $100,000 incomes and, while the proportion may be open to debate, depending on what amounts are desired to collect, there can be no doubt that the treasury's fortunes are dependent upon a continuance of a system of rewards...
...Weather Bureau has been trying to answer over since its inception. As yet it has met with little success. George II. Noyes '97, senior meteorologist of the Boston office of the United States Weather Bureau, can trace the path of a storm with surprising accuracy but is forced to confess ignorance when asked why this winter has been so unusually severe. However, it is interesting to delve into the history of an individual storm such as the blizzard which has plagued Bostonians yesterday and today...