Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believes that the "excess profits tax is doomed; it may not even survive the final stages of war itself." Government, in a frantic attempt to keep the economy running at high speed, will give business every tax inducement, inducement-piling on individuals the estimated $300,000,000,000 national debt...
Betrayal and Fulfillment. One of the rules Author Mumford learned from Sir Patrick Geddes was that man should lead a "balanced life." A balanced life consists in using every element in man to the full - but not to excess. Human history, according to Author Mumford, is the record of such attempts at balance...
...Greeks' undoing. Athenians began to see life not as a "spiral of change and development," but as a "superbly closed circle"-"life arrested meant art perfected." When mortal danger threatened them, in the form of Alexander the Great, the Greeks could not summon themselves to the excess of battle...
Though Author Mumford examines the ideas and behavior of medieval men at exhaustive length, he concludes that, since Jesus' time, the prevailing condition of man has been chiefly the ups & downs of imbalance. Man has spoiled even his best ideas by excess or by clinging to them long after they were dated. Thus...
...state in which an airline is incorporated the right to tax its personal property 100%, the other giving all other states in which it operates the right to pile their own taxes on top. The result, wrote Chief Justice Stone gloomily, may be to tax airlines "far in excess of their value" and impose such a tax burden that "few interstate carriers . . . could survive...