Word: current
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald of December 13, 1929, it was stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which permit them to pay less taxes...
...production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses of the community, paid...
Livestock. "Current year has been profitable. . . . Fewer cattle and hogs slaughtered . . . higher prices...
...Obsolete diminutive of ant, current only among elder Pennsylvania Dutch...
...better movies are on the current bill at the University Theatre this week. Ann Harding, in "Her Private Affair", shows how infinitely superior the better stage actresses are to the average movie-trained chit, and completely carries off a difficult part to the satisfaction of this reviewer's not lenient taste...