Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a House bill to continue for another year the 1? per gal. gasoline tax, to reduce local postage from 3? to 2?, to authorize the President to adjust other postal rates as he sees fit; sent it to conference. The House bill transferred the 3% electricity tax from consumer to producer. The Senate bill put a 2% tax on the producer of commercial and domestic electricity, a i% tax on the industrial consumer...
...Moley-Thomas bill required the President to do nothing, but it gave him enough power to knock the dollar down to 50? or less if he sees fit. Assuming that he uses up to the hilt all the authority Congress is about to vote him, the following things will occur...
...ride horseback every morning to keep fit...
This course is only for the most intrepid sould who pride themselves either upon linguistic ability or blind courage. Freshmen who have not heard that French B is one of the most difficult courses in College usually take it in a fit of ambition to pass off language requirements rapidly. Occasionally, however, an unusual upperclassman accepts the challenge to learn all the grammar in a few months, read 1500 pages of moderately difficult literature, and attend sessions five times a week under Dr. Herrick's tutelage...
...temporary solution to this problem is for the tutor to have on hand figures which represent the actual amount of time required in each laboratory course. He should see to it that the real laboratory hours fit conveniently into a schedule in which the work of no one course will be crowded. The tutors in Biochemistry in partionlar, since they cannot straddle the fields of biology, chemistry, and physics with omniscience, should investigate and advise. But the clearing up of the whole confusion can only come through a correction of the advertised laboratory hours to take into consideration both...