Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Already taxes have been restored to a peacetime level. . . . This is progress in the right direction. There is still much more that can be done . . . when revenues show sufficient permanent increase. There is a growing demand for a further reduction in taxes on earned incomes . . . with which I have always been in sympathy as is evidenced by the recommendations the Treasury made to Congress. . . . The Treasury is still of this opinion and will be glad to see these principles [of tax reduction] still further carried into law whenever revenues justify such action...
...religious repentance, that we Chinese are backward in everything and that every other modern nation in the world is much better off than we are. For all this we have ourselves to blame! Let us no longer deceive ourselves with self-complacent talks about imperialistic powers hampering our national progress and prosperity. Let us read the recent history of Japan and bury our conceit and self-deception once for all in shame and repentance...
...they slid a well lubricated yard of stomach tubing down each test case's gullet. By lowering the free end of the tubing they siphoned out a teaspoonful or so of the case's stomach contents and every few minutes they were able to study the progress of digestion...
...Hubbard '97, Professor of Landscape Architecture, to complete for publication a survey and analysis of city planning and zoning progress in the United States...
...movement proves that the effects of war propaganda have died out in the educated classes. Now that the number of exchanged students has reached an appreciable size, there are not sufficient funds to increase the fellowships and scholarships to the point that is necessary if the project is to progress. If the present tendency of giving money to educational institutions were given a broader scope, and extended to this field of intercourse with foreign students, a more equitable basis of relations between the United States and Germany could be completely realized. There would be a sounder mutual understanding of national...