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...astonishing assumption," defended "home owners, farmers and others who pay general taxes" against the implicit charge of paying less than their share. A.A.R.'s own conclusion: that vehicle owners should pay 75% of all road costs, Government the rest. Eastman's: "Their [the railroads'] contentions impress me as being carried to extreme limits." But Railroader Pelley also reminded his hearers why railroad and truck taxes cannot, should not be compared-the railroads own and pay property taxes on their right of ways, highway haulers...
...conceded by legal experts to have a strong case as far as the morals phase of the controversy goes. He has cited a section of the General Laws of Massachusetts as his authority for asking cancellation of Russell's appointment. This section demands that Harvard College endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society...
...tired of going to regular lectures; he was tired of listening to professors trying to impress students with unconvincing ideas. Vag often felt like this, and when he did he always had a particular rule to go by: When you feel one lecture pall, stay at home and cut them all. Naturally, this rule was easy to follow and Vag would certainly have spent the day comfortably at home had it not been for the Crimson notice: Robert Frost will speak on "perfection of Sympathy." Vag decided he would have to change his mind and hear this one. Rules were...
...second term. Algie said after Africa, "I think I've earned a little rest, now I'm going to vegetate in Sussex." Instead the Earl was entrusted with a series of missions in the Near East extremely important to the British Government, which needed to impress the late Turkish President Kamal Atatürk and tough King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Ibn Saud dined with a woman for the first time in his life when he sat down with the Countess of Athlone. Tactful "Aunt Alice" (to George VI) veiled herself like a model Mohammedan woman while...
...never experienced these typical acute attacks. Some of them: a college girl who "was rushed to the operating table so fast she hadn't a chance to impress the surgeon with the fact that she had just been on ... 'a walnut fudge bust' "; a man "who had just had a violent argument with his wife"; several school teachers who "were worn out with fatigue"; a young woman who couldn't digest onions; "one girl who had simply vomited her dinner...