Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taxes. Bona fide taxes, imposed to raise money, are constitutional under Congress' power to raise revenue. Pseudo taxes, imposed for purposes of regulation rather than for the purpose of raising money, are constitutional or unconstitutional depending on whether Congress, through its other powers, is entitled to undertake such particular regulation. By inference the penalty taxes of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act, Kerr-Smith Tobacco Act, the Guffey Coal Act, cannot be upheld as constitutional taxes, can only be upheld if the aims of those acts are within the proper powers of Congress...
...spokeswoman, Mme Geneviéve Tabouis, declared that in her opinion Belgium's King, who conferred with Britain's King-Emperor last week, has two main and immediate objects: 1) to dissuade Britain from supporting oil sanctions which he believes would ignite a European war to the particular disadvantage of Belgium; 2) to make sure that Belgium is a party to any further secret British-German dickering which might weaken still more the Treaty of Versailles and imperil Belgium further...
...vain for acceptable synonyms, he sagely remarked that he considered the meaning more important than the metre. I agreed and, as he trudged off to bed, I reflected upon some reading that I had just done in the works of an author with an extraordinary facility for rhyming. This particular author is scintillating, facetious, and resourceful, but my conclusion was that the particular cante that I had been reading did not meet the fundamental requisite of my clear-thinking, unsophisticated high school...
...happened yesterday afternoon. The whole picture constitutes a record of one of history's most melodramatic moments told in an idiom equal to its subject, from a skeleton designed by a novelist of genius. Like all real art, it achieves the general by relating the particular with an emotional intensity that never lets down from the first shot of a coach wheel being pulled through the mud of an English road to the last shot, in which the camera swings up from the dying Carton and the bloodthirsty crowd in the Place dé la Révolution...
Like many a diseuse, Sarah Osnath-Halevy gained telling effects with a .shrug of a shoulder, a lift of an eye. More marvelous, though, was what she could suggest with her long, slim hands alone. Each finger seemed to have a definite part, each pose its own particular beauty. That such hands should have washed dishes and scrubbed floors seemed almost incredible. But it is a fact that Sarah Osnath-Halevy was a domestic servant before she made her mark as an interpreter of songs. Her family, driven out by Arabs, left Yemen when she was 4. On the long...