Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...featured the tightening up of existing tax machineryThe "Socialist wing of the Cartel held a party caucus, and the delegates who attended voted, 1,766 to 1,331, against the party's supporting any Ministry whatever unless a majority of the Ministers should be Socialists. This was taken to mean that M. Herriot could not depend on the Socialists to support a Cartel Ministry with himself as Premier. The Cartel was declared split and probably impotent to oust M. Briand...
...little knowledge has often been considered dangerous--but as yet the "little" has been qualified by censors and critics to mean the anti-Puritanic. Now it appears that Mr. Sumner and his friends must include the treatises of pessimistic philosophy in the category of the proscribed. For there is danger in even a momentary glance at their gloomy thought...
...must, therefore, be treated as is most other legislations in Washington, from a compromise standpoint. The tax hill which has recently passed the House of Representatives, seems to me to be a relatively good one and should be passed in substantially that form. That does not mean that I am in favor of every item in it or that any other man may be, but it is a better law than the one which is now in force...
...trouble with them is--I still mean the whys and whats--that they have the wrong labels. In a generation with the greatest regard for labels what chance has any art which bears the tag of buffoonery--honest buffoonery?. Last week I went over to town to find what claim to greatness beside the tag of R.A., Sir John Lavery possessed. And there at the Vose galleries I saw people thrilling over, at best mediocre work--merely out of respect for the R.A.--that and the fact he had married a lady from Chicago. While next door at the Casson...
...limited cut rule such as enforced at Columbia places upon the conscientious undergraduate the burden of exhausting his allowed absences. Permitting five cuts in a course does not mean telling a student to cut five times but it usually works out that way. With the necessity for cutting three or five times removed, the really interested student might attend a course to his heart's content, perhaps not cutting once in a semester...