Word: dying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abolished retroactively. The maximum estate tax until June, 1924, was 25%, and since then it has been 40% (TIME, June 2, 1924.) Under the new bill it is to be 20%. It was argued that it was unfair to assess unusually high estate taxes against those who happened to die in the last two years, when taxes before that were lower and are now to be lower. So the 25% maximum rates were restored until the new bill becomes effective. Estate taxes are collected over a comparatively long period-up to five years-and therefore it is expected that...
...interval before these bills could be submitted, the National- ists, in caucus and out, continued to call for the flat rejection of the Pacts. General Ludendorff, arch-ultra-die-hard, spoke as follows...
...Carrel introduces immortality in a physical sense. It is there before your eyes, and so long as this tissue is nurtured and irrigated it will live. It cannot die. Its growth is so enormous that it doubles itself every twenty-four hours and if it had not been pared down each day since the experiment began it would now be a colossal monster overspreading all New York...
...Stadium resigns itself to cold and windswept emptiness. The tumult and the shouting die away. And Harvard is very proud and quite content...
Athletes may die twice: once when they put their gear away; once when breath leaves them. Two weeks ago sportsmen marked the passing in the first fashion of James Thorpe the Indian; last week death of the second, the definitive sort, came to Robert D. Wrenn, four times National Tennis Champion...