Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialist Arthur Koestler wrote of Britain: "The problem of incentives is the most difficult and most important problem of Socialist economy [and yet] the massacre of incentives continues. The last bit of fun has been exiled from their drab lives in this country of Virtue and Gloom, with its mean vindictive Work or Want posters on every street corner; a slogan fit for a state orphanage or reformatory school, and which makes every self-respecting worker's stomach turn in disgust. . . . Two more years of this, and Labor will have irretrievably wasted its historic chance...
...plus athletes who will compete tomorrow, there are four men whose names may mean more than the others to most spectators. They are Ted Vogel and Ed Palmieri of Tufts, and Sam Felton and Dick Barwise of the Crimson...
...Huskies feature center Jim Bell of Waltham and watchcharm defenseman Frank Bell (no relation) who tips the scales at a mean 150 pounds. Coach Herb Gallagher shares Johnny Chase's problems at defense and had to move the lighter Bell from the forward post at which he excelled...
...from investments be taxfree, as they were only held in trust for future payments on policies. The Treasury agreed that this was reasonable, and Congress passed a complicated formula to exempt 90 to 91%. When the formula was applied this year, the exemptions worked out to 100.7%. That would mean a windfall of upwards of $34 million. The companies agreed that this was more than they deserved and that Congress should draft a new formula for 1948. They were also willing to work out a retroactive adjustment...
...meant by declaring Americans to be lost. Lusting to record his every private experience with thoroughness and passion, he did manage to portray individual loneliness in a mechanized society and the conflicts of a world torn, between accumulation of money and development of personality. But what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought and throughout his life he indulged in cracker-barrel sneering at intellectuals. He was a confused boy with a great gift for language, whose significance...