Word: opening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keefe case, upholding the right of States to tax Federal salaries and abandoning John Marshall's preachment that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," represented the Court's major doctrinal departure for the term. It altered the nation's basic tax structure, opened the way for taxation of income from Government securities. Last fortnight the Court clinched this point by decreeing that judges' salaries, too, are taxable. Further, it laid open to multiple taxation private fortunes reposing in more than one State at death...
...menace makes the value of England's navy a conundrum, the tradition of Nelson a question mark. London, nerve-centre of the Empire, is 330 miles closer to German airports than Berlin is to English airports. British aircraft and munitions factories are easy targets in the open. And in another war Britain's food supply from overseas may be threatened by air raiders as well as submarine raiders...
...outguess, to improvise, to make the best of what you have, is absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers...
...northward current tc Baffin Bay, then south in the Labrador current to the Newfoundland Banks. Some are wrecked on the coast, others drift into the Strait of Belle Isle; some float south to the Gulf Stream. This year, more bergs than usual were expected, because of an open winter in Baffin Bay and Labrador, and because the cold water of the Labrador current was reaching farther south than usual...
...action is based on a city ordinance requiring that a police permit be obtained for performances open to the public, Sullivan said. As far as could be learned yesterday this rule has never before been invoked on shows produced on University property...