Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trois. Funds for manipulation in stabilizing the franc to be drawn from: 1) An elaborate revision of French taxes calculated to produce three billion francs of new revenue. 2) Negotiation of international credit...
...grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual income of Cecil Smith nontaxable because he is a bootlegger...
...blade of grass, a chip of rubber, came to rest over his right shoulder. Three hundred yards down the course the ball stopped rolling. Jones took an iron, swung it up-down. One hundred and eighty yards, splitting the pin all the way, the ball flew as if drawn on an invisible wire, slid four yards past the hole. Turnesa, watching, brushed his hand across his forehead. So it was all no use, his own fight over the harsh Scioto course, with its clods like stones, no use, the 294 that meant riches, pleasure, fame. Jones...
...still growls but his tooth is drawn...
During the past two years many a sympathetic traveler has paused before the tall barred gates of a great mansion in Yamaguchi (Western Japan). Its blinds have remained closely drawn. Within Masataro Namba, head of that once proud family, has lived with his brothers and their families in a retirement scarcely less secluded than that of the grave. Until a year ago, their aged father, once a member of the Imperial Diet, shared this seclusion with them, then died of brief...