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Word: inheritability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pastor complains that business is not all that bad. The problem, he says, is that the Government will not let him count as assets $14 million that the cathedral will inherit from people who have written the church into their wills. He insists that cathedral investors are not worried about their investments; they are pious folk who regard the church's securities as a contribution to gospel spreading. As Humbard told TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling last week: "We have never missed an interest payment. We're not in default with our people. If Government regulators try to force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rex in the Red | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...officials. They rationalize that France's departure would almost certainly bring about a war for possession between Ethiopia, which uses an Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway link as an economic lifeline, and Somalia, which was the ancestral home of the Issas. As one official put it: "The problems we inherit by staying are not as bad as the problems we would cause by leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Dropping in on Djibouti | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...Night Thoreau Spent In Jail. Trying to re-create the success of their Inherit the Wind, authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee can't do for Henry David Thoreau what they did for Clarence Darrow. Ideas are thick and the drama is this, although audiences don't seem to mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

This excellent biography was written by Virginia Woolf s nephew. The first sentence?"Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen"?sets the stance: just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V. - Virginial Woolf: A Biography | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

CSCR is survived by other advisory committees -- the Committee on Investment and the Committee on Community Affairs -- which will inherit its functions and maybe its ills...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: The CSCR: D. 1972, R.I.P. | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

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