Word: nine
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Robin Hood. Dalton gave the lowest wage group the solace of a cut in income taxes which brought them back to about the 1940 level. The basic rate of nine shillings to the pound (45%) remained. But by lifting the basic exemptions and increasing allowances for dependents, the budget took income tax entirely off about 750,000 low-income Britons. Under the new schedule, a British couple with two children will pay no tax unless they earn more than $28 a week, and they would not pay the 45% rate unless they earned more than $40 a week. The change...
...busy week lies ahead for the Crimson nine, with four games slated, three at home. Boston Colleges will come to Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon, and the team will meet Columbia at New York on Wednesday. Weekend competition includes engagements here with Brown on Friday, and with Dartmouth on Saturday. Both the Lions and the Big Green are Ivy League rivals...
With the weather offering stiffer competition than the opposition of Lawrence Academy could muster, the Yardling nine yesterday managed to squeeze in the legal ball game limit and come out on top, 6 to 2. Today at 3 o'clock they face New Prep on Soldiers Field, while the Jayvees meet the Tufts seconds...
Coach Adolph Samborski had not settled definitely on his hurling choice when a squad of 17 players left by train for its upstate New York destination last night. Brendon Reilly, who pitched nine innings against Columbia on Wednesday, may get the call after only two days of rest; otherwise, Jack Wallace or Ralph Hymans will try to stop...
...race, which will consume in the neighborhood of nine minutes-give or take a few seconds-will start from a position just upstream from the West Boston (or Subway) Bridge and procede thence in a generally southwesterly direction for a mile and three quarters, until a point opposite the Tech Boathouse is reached...