Word: exemption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenses could be brought about by issuing a coupon book similar to the present H. A. A. book but designed solely for the participator. The coupons could pay for lockers towels and the maintenance of athletic equipment. Members of university teams and freshmen taking compulsory exercise would naturally be exempt from the upkeep charges. The price of these coupon books should be moderate so that those men, whose studies and laboratory work allow only intermittent exercise could benefit by the saving incurred in using all the coupons. A system such as this would do much to eliminate the present inequalities...
Harvard has not been exempt from the rush towards college since the war, and while scholastic standards have been steadily rising to hold back the mob at the door, this policy of exclusion has operated to the disadvantage of many men of low average intelligence but otherwise fully endowed with strong character, personality and other desirable traits. The University is beginning to hear complaints along this line from alumni who found no trouble in earning their gentleman's C's in the gay nineties but whose sons are in the process of flunking out or haven't even succeeded...
...Constantinople (1889-97) to Britain's first ambassador in Berlin after the War (1920-26), the noble lord knows alcohol of most nationalities. "Alcohol does badly what it sets out to do," said he last week. "It is not a true stimulant. The result it brings is not exempt from disagreeable and injurious reaction. Therefore I continue to believe in the eventual concoction of some preferable substitute." Asked to be more specific Viscount D'Abernon said, with the air of a man who dreams dreams and sees visions: "A vast fortune would reward the discoverer of this preferable...
...when-issued basis on the New York Stock Exchange, the bonds reached 91¼, closed 90? were the most popular of the day, with a turnover of $1,050,000. Due to the lower price of the offering here, many French investors bought in the New York open market. Exempt from the foreign bond tax in France, the loan was floated there at 98, the difference of 8% paid to the French treasury by the B. I. S. in lieu of investors' taxes...
...Investigation of Vivisection, anti-vivisectionists displayed their might and main. Their might: 150 delegates, representing 125 U. S. humane and antivivisectionist societies. Their main: protest to President Hoover against the "political activities of the U. S. Public Health Service and U. S. Army in opposition to a bill to exempt dogs from vivisection in the District of Columbia"; a protest to Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland that his State Board of Health has been active against anti-vivisectionists. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Senatorial candidate in Illinois, telegraphed: "My aid to you officially whenever opportunity presents...