Word: letting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must reflect in some direction the benefit which accrues thereby. And if we could only find that element in the public economy which reflects the benefit, and use that, and that only, as the basis of taxation, it seems that a large part of our tax difficulties might disappear. Let us examine, then, the elements in the public economy...
Coach Wachter's charges started off in a hurry to run up their large total and didn't let up throughout the game. Despite the fact that a few set-up shots were missed and other early-season misplays cropped up Harvard's play was practically up to mid-season form...
...season, except its contrast to the sort of thing that was being presented a year ago at this time. From unruly Mexico, the Club has shifted to the most polite drawing-room atmosphere of proper England. Of course, A. A. Milne is much too successful in juvenile writing to let slip an opportunity like the Barrie-Kipling dream scene in which the appearance of a Nite, a Squier, and a Buteus Maiden would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed of slightly bored dialogue in Act I, a not too effective suggestion...
...members of the course were eager to read this particular work I appreciate the necessity of getting additional copies for the library. Since there has never been a complaint on this matter before, I take it that the great increase in the enrollment has created an unexpected difficulty. But let me pass to other points. Your writer states that there are approximately 200 men in the course. In reality there are only 160, so that your writer is rather wide of the mark. He is also rather misleading when he says that the thesis is due the week following...
...called for an essay on the July Monarchy, but it is clear to me from his further remarks, that he understood this to mean that he was to write the history of the July Monarchy in twenty minutes. His estimate of my judgment seems to be desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they had only fifteen minutes to say it. I believe and I still maintain that it is quite possible to give a brief characterization of the regime...