Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A big flaw critics have pointed out in the Act is its scheme for a full reserve for old-age insurance to be built up during a long period while revenues from taxes on employers and employes exceed disbursements. By 1980 this vast coalbin is scheduled to hold a reserve...
Most pointed gibes at Nazi Germany were made at the Anglo-American Press Association's annual dinner in Paris last week. A playlet depicted an imaginary second Munich conference at which Mr. Chamberlain, who had just promised Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked...
The general impression in London was that Dr. Schacht returned to Berlin at week's end emptyhanded. (His "private visit" had included a secret conference with U. S. Lawyer George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.) If Dr. Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off...
The first, small in number, stand on firm religious ground. The second pointed to the "armed camp" cause of the Great War, and now the Munich Pact is being pointed out to them. But the third class is the one mind which can most easily be administered to by a...
"Then it had the verve to produce certain dramas that Broadway wouldn't dare touch," the Pulitzer Prize playwright continued. Wilder pointed out that Oxford and Cambridge Universities invite English actors and actresses to take part in distinguished plays unsuited for commercial production. "Why the Yale Dramatic Club has been...