Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just Money. For the rest of its hoped-for billions, the Treasury suggested: 1) $400,000,000 more from estate and gift taxes; 2) $1.1 billion from raising the normal tax and surtax rate for corporations from 40% to 50% for companies with net incomes of over $50,000 a year. Nobody squawked much at this: neither corporations nor dead men vote. But these taxes are no solution of the inflation problem...
...with a gag man's brash ability to keep moving, ad-lib, hit back; above all, with a gag man's sense of timing. Says Hope: "I was born with timing and coordination." Artistically he was born with little else-no special trick of speech, gift of pantomime, sense of character. Quite inartistically, indeed, he was born with a kind of strenuous averageness-which paradoxically managed to set him apart...
...long last the elders of Cobh cried that he had gone into thin air entirely. They threatened to withdraw their gift of the monument site. But Jerome Connor came forward again, with one of the most melodious of all his explanations...
This summer 15,000,000 families in Russia have had their first taste of Idaho peas, New Jersey tomatoes, Oregon onions, Michigan beets. Planted on 500,000 acres of Russian soil, the seed was the gift of U.S. farmers and seedgrowers through the Russian War Relief, Inc. For some of this seed this will be a native's return, for the Red Turkey wheat and Kherson oats were first brought to the Middle West by immigrants from the Ukraine...
...formal address at the academic ceremony, the British Prime Minister made his strongest plea yet for continued Anglo-American cooperation, expressing the hope that the gift of a common language might "become the basis for common citizenship some...