Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after drafting the foregoing tax schedules, Democratic members of the Ways & Means Committee became alarmed at reports that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...
When the Army's dismal performance with the airmail caused a public outcry last year, the Administration felt constrained to find a scapegoat. It had been the opinion of Major General Benjamin Delahauf ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps, that the Army could fly the mail. Major General Foulois was investigated by a House Military Affairs subcommittee, which indignantly demanded his dismissal...
What have they all gained from Harvard which might aid them in preventing this occurrence? Some men have had successful records in college; a great many, mediocre ones; and a few, dismal ones. In 1960 while the personnel of each division may have changed there will still be failures, successes, and living examples of mediocrity...
...Doubleday, Doran ($3). The circumstantial tale of a post-War German youth, on the dismal theme of incest and matricide; not pretty reading, but honestly written...
Dean Sperry reviews all the other opinions of Wordsworth's dismal anti-climax, giving in every case the devil his due and showing what facts each ignores. His own belief is, that Wordsworth in embracing the sensationalist psychology from Hartly, out of Locke and Hume, was pursuing a course detrimental to the continuation and enhancement of his poetic powers and the Dean gives his reasons lucidly and even persuasively...