Word: might
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taxes out of all the incomes of its citizens? The Economist thinks not. In fact, it said: "The long continuance of taxation of anything like 40% of the national income will ruin the country. It will not do so spectacularly in any one year or the next-there might be more hope if it would...
...tillon. It was "nonsense," he said, to claim Saint-Sylvestre's uranium strike as the world's richest. The Belgian Congo fields were yielding a 50% ore. However, Saint-Sylvestre's pitchblende deposits, though not yet fully explored, were of major importance. They might keep Zoé going without imports...
...Commission, came to Saint-Sylvestre.To the assembled villagers Dautry said: under a law of 1810 all subsoil wealth belongs to the state. Therefore no individual would gain from radioactive hectares. At the maximum the local uranium fields would need less than 50 workers. Therefore even a new hotel or restaurant might not be assured of success...
Polished Performance. As a writer, Tinker was never as prolific as he wished to be. Blinded in one eye when a boy, he had to guard his sight carefully. Once, when he thought he might lose it entirely, he began memorizing great chunks of poetry to be able to go on teaching. He looked upon teaching as an exacting art, and worked upon each lecture as if it were to be his first. Every lecture was a performance. Settled in a chair by his desk and crooking his neck around to peer through his one good eye, he seemed...
...West Dallas, Tex. keeps a barber chair just outside his office door, and a bottle of bright red hair tonic on his desk. "It's real loud-smelling tonic," says he. "That brings them in." It does, sometimes at the rate of twelve a day-pupils who might wait a long time for a haircut if it weren't for the little shop right there next to the principal's office...