Word: lift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must raise new taxes, somehow, somewhere. And 1940 is an election year. To raise new taxes, Congress must do two politically unpalatable things: 1) broaden the income-tax structure, by lowering the tax-exemption rate to include thousands of U. S. citizens who now pay no income tax; 2) lift the tax exemptions historically enjoyed by Federal, State and municipal bonds...
...Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper at the University of Chicago, announced recently that about 500 "loyal graduates" were planning on a "secret meeting to decide on a way" to lift the football team out of the doldrums...
...Lift up the bloody-red standard...
Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...
...breathers, Bates and Chicago, failed to lift the lid from the football stew at Cambridge. But the twice victorious Quaker bruisers have already indicated a capacity to solve the Crimson mystery. They're big, they're seasoned, and they're determined to chalk up their second victory, away from home, in ten years...