Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unsatisfactory present methods are was shown at a recent meeting of Massachusetts assessors. It was reported in the press that when Commissioner Henry F. Long asked those assessors who had not violated the oath of office to stand, no one arose. In the financial comment in the Boston Herald of December 13, 1929, it was stated, referring to current selling of stocks to register losses for the reduction of federal income tax payments.--"The psychology of tax evasion is peculiar. Men scrupulously honest in money matters in general apparently feel no compunction about adopting any schemes which are legal which...
...prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses...
...rule was not taken over this year because it has always been the policy of the amateurs to let the pros do the experimenting. The innovation will this year get its share of watching and if it warrants adoption by the colleges it will certainly be introduced. At present however the intercollegiate coaches seem eager to keep the hockey game intact and interpret it correctly rather than adopt a doubtful improvement for the sake of the fans...
...recent agitation for a boxing team, therefore, would seem to have a sound foundation. Figures show that at the present time there are between 100 and 150 men working out in the Hemenway Gymnasium any where from three to five times a week under the direction of Lawrence Conley, boxing instructor. With so much interest being shown, it seems that there ought not be much argument about the advisability of organizing the sport into teams when the Student Council takes the matter under advisement at its next meeting. BY TIME...
...games in both the Boston League and in her other indoor games, which led up to the Intercollegiate Championship in Indoor Polo and to the finals of the Class A tournament. This year, however, prospects are not very bright, as several men are in college are ineligible at present...