Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phase of his program. Any discussion of what to do about prices would inevitably stir up the old argument over who was to blame for the present high level of prices. Republicans said that businessmen would oppose any new controls. Said Michigan's Jesse Wolcott: "If he can lower prices without putting controls back on, he's a genius and we'll admit...
...these states, husband & wife legally constitute a fiscal partnership, in which each owns half their combined income, even though the husband may earn all of it. By splitting their income and filing separate returns, they can pay taxes in a lower income bracket at a considerable saving. For example, a couple with two children and a net income of $25,000 pays a federal tax of $6,100 in New Mexico, a tax of $8,520 in New York...
...many American students who come to partake of both an education more liberal than the GE program and also of what the Center calls "the best Sunday night meal for forty cents in Cambridge." When the room fills with saris, turbans, and all conceivable accents from Upper Mongolian to Lower Californian, Thayer house rivals the lobby of Grand Hotel for international flavor. A hopeful not for tomorrow lies in the possibility that the good will and understanding that pervades Center gatherings today will hold over when many of the students return to lead their nations in world affairs...
...endowment fund for current expenditures. Add two million in "gifts for immediate use," nearly five million in reimbursement on Government contracts, and close to twelve million in tuition, and you have the total income of Harvard University in 1946-47--some twenty-five million dollars. Expenses ran a mite lower, leaving the University $369,333 in the black for the year...
Girls have been asked in a college decree, however, "not to let the water run while you're brushing your teeth," and to conserve the precious stuff in any other way possible. "I think we're going to end up by drinking Lower Lake," was the standard reply given by Holyokians when interrogated about the shortage...