Word: personating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budget, Canada had cut off the 15% wartime excise tax on air and rail tickets (TIME, May 23). In the U.S., a 15% tax was still on. The knowing traveler simply mailed his ticket order to a Canadian office (or went in person if he lived at a border point such as Detroit or Buffalo) and saved himself the amount of the tax. Sample saving on a round trip from Washington to Los Angeles...
Actress Joyce Mathews, 27, who divorced Comedian Milton Berle, 40, two years ago, even though she rated him as "a swell person and a great artist," was rumored thinking of remarrying him. "Why don't you ask Milton?" said she to a nosy newsman. Said Milton: "Well, now, suppose I say maybe...
...Emerson's writing might get from this book an impression that he was a rather colorless ex-clergyman who lived a good but uneventful life in a dull New England town, and that the chief distinction of his career was that he successfully avoided being monopolized by any person or idea...
Individualism is justify esteemed here at Harvard. But when this individualism infringes upon the rights of an-other person. We feel that it ceases to be a Visine. Such rude behavior as we observed is totally unbefitting anyone who claims academic and social intelligence. We contend that Professor Romans has not "said enough"; that his remarks and those of other faculty members like him should continue to be heard uninterrupted...
...setup is based on having two drives a year aimed at roughly $5 per person, instead of the former single drive aimed at $10. This is expected to glean more money...