Word: hem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...benefit of doubters, Banker Ruml took the precaution of checking his assertions with impeccable outside sources: his letter was attested by 16 members of eight leading Manhattan accounting firms. Meanwhile, Congress and the Treasury continued to hem & haw over a proposition that seemed self-evident to many a master of sixth-grade arithmetic. For if the Treasury collects one year's taxes every year the Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation...
Throughout the evening the Crimson looked good when it managed to clear the puck out of its own zone, but defensively there appeared room for a good deal of improvement, and the puck chasers' aged but very agile opponents managed to hem them in a good part of the evening...
General Weygand's retirement would add one more chapter to a life story that in the last 20 years has consisted mostly of recalls from retirement during crises-the defense of Warsaw against the Bolsheviki in 1020, when women kissed the hem of his garment and men hailed him as a savior; Chief of the French General Staff when the full implication of a reduction of the length of compulsory military service had become clear; and finally to take chief command when the Germans had won the Battle of Flanders and were waging the Battle of France. "See Weygand...
Howard Greer (formerly Paramount's designer, now turned free lance): fishtail hem lines on daytime dresses...
...back of it he must certify his United States citizenship. After a certain amount of formal red tape has been untangled, Eli is given a job, working 26 hours a month at $50 an hour, mimeographing Psychology outlines in Emerson Hall. His $13 a month will not net hem more than $100 a year. It may be that his T.S.E. job will be cut to a certain extent, let us say $50. He will then make a net increase of income...