Word: earned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these states, husband & wife legally constitute a fiscal partnership, in which each owns half their combined income, even though the husband may earn all of it. By splitting their income and filing separate returns, they can pay taxes in a lower income bracket at a considerable saving. For example, a couple with two children and a net income of $25,000 pays a federal tax of $6,100 in New Mexico, a tax of $8,520 in New York...
...varsity sport, hockey players win points for athletic competition. Enough of them entitle the athlete to a Radcliffe blazer and smaller totals earn numerals, a shield, or a bright...
...last month, according to the dope, it had earned $6.3 million profit, and expected to earn another $12 million in the last quarter. Furthermore, because of the 1946 losses, up to $19.3 million of this profit would be tax-exempt under the carry-forward provision...
...this formidable view, a British monk called Pelagius† took flat exception. Augustine's austere teachings, he felt, would inevitably lead man into a fatal moral apathy. Instead, he argued that all men have the free will to earn their own salvation by good works. Grace, said Pelagius, consists simply of man's natural gifts, God's forgiveness of sins to the baptized, and His issuance of instructions and examples...
...editor knows her business girls better than they know themselves. By bombarding them with questionnaires, she has learned that they earn an average of $170 a month, that 71% of them chew gum, only 37% smoke 63% are single and 95% think (wishfully or otherwise) that it is not a man's world...