Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
Stating both sides of the question he said that a balance must be found between the undisputed value of absolute freedom of speech and press, and the vicious effect of propaganda from Europe. He cited the "Belgian babies" propaganda as a factor contributing to our entrance into the World War. Subsequent investigation, he said, did not reveal one case of children having their hands cut off by German soldiers...
There's some sort of a quotation that says the old must yield place to the new. Hemenway Gymnasium is living up to it with a vigor surprising for such an old building. But Hemenway's present liveliness is not her own; it comes from a gang of beauty-lovers professionally known as the Central Building Wrecking Company...
...boys, as they must be affectionately called, approach the task of demolishing a husky, tall section of wall. It is part of the once proud structure opposite Phillips Brooks House, and towering fragment of loose bricks as it is, it stands stark and alone, the very last piece of Hemenway's walls. The boys, about six of them, drag a heavy steel cable across the ruins of the foundations and try to wrap it around the tall, narrow piece of wall. They cannot hitch it on high enough to get effective leverage. The other end of the cable is bent...
...section man hissing his students is like a man biting a dog, but due to the insistence of one of his students the simile must read "rat bites underdog." An Economics A instructor marched into class during the reading period just bubbling over with high spirits and ideas. One idea was an hour exam and it did not go over so well with the class. In fact without any time out for deliberation they hissed him and his idea. But he hissed right back perhaps a less resounding hiss, but a much more cultured one, and the exam was held...