Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop D. Thies 3L proposed the measure as a means to circumvent the large amount of federal taxes the Corporation must forfeit from its membership fees. Thies contended that if the money were in deposit form, it would not be subject to federal taxation...
...story an entertaining, moving, and important one. While never surrendering the rigorous standards of a great analytic philosopher, Russell has been deeply and outspokenly "involved," "committed," "existentially concerned" with the dilemmas that have beset his age. He has realized that it is precisely because the areas philosophers so often forfeit to politicians and theologians are murky, irrational, and vague, that thinkers professionally concerned with clarity and logic should not hesitate to comment on them--and even, if need be, to come out of the study and crusade...
Prior to the contest, Greenough sported a record of seven wins, two losses. One of the losses came by forfeit, the other at the hands of Matthews North. Holworthy swept through all eight games by wide margins, with the exception of a close contest with Grays...
...Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept booting him out of the party for insubordination and then taking him back because he was too voluble, intense and eloquent a liar to forfeit.* Churchmen abhorred him as a relentless enemy of religion...
Replied Maggie, opening her blue eyes wide: "It would appear that the rules are not consistent with the ad that I endorse, and therefore I regretfully withdraw (or forfeit?) or do whatever is necessary to relinquish press gallery membership. Sorry I didn't know about your rules. Shows you should always read the fine print, doesn't it?" Then, jabbing a hatpin at colleagues who appear frequently on TV's press-panel shows, Maggie noted that she must have broken the rules much earlier with her first appearance on such "sponsored television shows" as Martha Rountree...