Word: directed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question : "Resolved, That the National Government should refund the direct tax levied...
...share of the entrance fees, or admission money, or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent organization of which he was at the time a member the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceed his ordinary expenses...
...Executive Committee shall have direct control of the boats, charge of the boat house and all property of the club. They shall enforce the preservation of order and obedience to the house and boat rules. They shall see that all damage done by members to the boat house or boats is made good...
...expenditure, for taxes represent the investment of a certain part of the capital of a state. It is an evil when, through the injudicious management of the state, taxation is made the instrument for extorting money for purposes foreign to the original. Taxes are generally divided into two classes-direct and indirect-although these two classes are rather vaguely defined even by political economists. An indirect tax is in many cases an incorrect tax, for it enhances the value of an article far beyond the original value of the article and the tax. For this very reason, there...
...more dangerous than the underground, but companies have been so pressed with work that they have to employ ignorant and careless men. The subway system will eventually be used because it is more sightly. The alternating current has never really been proved more deadly than the direct, and in fact should be less dangerous thebretically. After the lecture Mr. Davis answered a great many questions from the club...