Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collecting in Italy is a cat & mouse game, well understood by both sides. Italian taxpayers declare only a tiny fraction of their true incomes; the government in return automatically triples whatever declaration the taxpayer makes. This year, at the urging of U.S. Marshall Plan officials, the government decided to reform all that. Under the new tax law, filled with all kinds of clauses to tempt the taxpayer to be honest, income tax blanks went on sale (another curious Italian custom) in the nation's tobacco shops at 25 lire (4?) each. But last week, when tax returns fell...
...with Goodman...that people are starving in the world. No one is asking Goodman to turn down heaping second helping, or the CRIMSON to lower its annual beer consumption; it is only once a year that a Food-for-Europe drive or its equivalent asks Harvard men for a fraction of their monthly allowances. But to complain when not only does one eat well personally, but the country one hails from lets food rot while other parts of the world go hungry: that is simply indecent...
Like many such glib pieces of advertising, this one told a half perhaps three-quarter truth. But the returning Business student is lucky: he can look around him and see an example of the whole truth's best fraction. New buildings, product of cooperation between industry and scholar, are being constructed for example. The School's Advanced Management program has drawn its largest class-nearly 200 executives are having their way paid to Cambridge to study the 1951 means to 1951's goals...
...with Goodman...that people are starving in the world. No one is asking Goodman to turn down heaping second helping, or the CRIMSON to lower its annual beer consumption; it is only once a year that a Food-for-Europe drive or its equivalent asks Harvard men for a fraction of their monthly allowances. But to complain when not only does one eat well personally, but the country one hails from lets food rot while other parts of the world go hungry: that is simply indecent...
...this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...