Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used each year, mainly to bind treaties). This week a Hoover Commission task force estimated that the Government's paper work is costing the taxpayers $4 billion a year. By economizing in carbon copies, cutting down on gobbledygook and other reforms, the task force reckoned the Government could save a tidy $255 million annually...
...important to realize that all medieval dances, save a handful, exist only as a single line of notes with no further indications. The group chosen was played, as intended, by whatever instrumentalists happened to be available, in this case Gillian Adams and Chester Pearlman, recorders; Mary Davidoff, viol; and John Hollander, lute. The added improvised percussion parts for hand drum, tamborine and triangle were totally authentic. The players also performed two of the earliest polyphonic instrumental pieces...
...thinks, lost the old ideal of marriage ("He shall be thy master"). The tradition that it is the man who generally breaks up a marriage is no longer true: "Today life makes such demands on man that the noble hidalgo Don Juan is to be seen nowhere save in the theater. More than ever, man loves his comfort . . . There is no longer a surplus of energy for window-climbing and duellos." Woman, meanwhile, will go to greater lengths than ever to find a husband, "by that quiet and obstinate wish that works . . . magically, like the fixed eye of the snake...
...plant, to be built and run by E.N.I.'s subsidiary, A.N.I.C. (Azienda Nazionale Idrogenazione Combustibili), will enable Italy to make better use of its methane, now used as fuel for northern Italian industries. As fuel, the gas would save Italy some $7,000,000 annually in imports. By using the same amount of gas to produce fertilizer and rubber, Italy can make enough money to balance out $40 million worth of imports. Eventually, as rubber production climbs, Italy even hopes to sell enough to supply a large portion of Europe's synthetic-rubber needs. Furthermore, E.N.I...
...Council's bill would apply one to tuition, not room and board, and would give only 30 percent credit on this expense. But the credit would apply to actual tax payments, rather than as an exemption on the tax base. If passed, this bill would save $240 for every parent paying the full $800 Harvard College tuition...