Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university in two sections, half one year, half the next, got a $12,500 deduction each year. But tax lawyers warn that anyone who hopes to save money by giving it away had better read all the fine print in the law since the Internal Revenue Service rates each scheme on its individual merits...
...Education. Some, perhaps educated abroad, feel that a man should be generally educated before he comes to college, and that if he is not, he can still pick up a general education on his own if he amounts to anything. Consequently they argue that General Education is a worthlesss scheme...
...time argument enters in here, too, for the science concentrator already has many hours of lab in his first years, and would be pressed to fit another course in. One Physics concentrator derided the scheme, asking, "Why waste another course on science...
...journalists and two lawyers pore over projects with an earnest and refreshingly optimistic determination to do what they can for the world. These projects can emerge in various ways-from a casual conversation at a cocktail party, from a request by some scholar or university, or from some great scheme cooked up by the staffmen themselves. All projects of over $500,000 must be passed by the full board of trustees,* which meets four times a year in a conference room with one wall lined with photographs of their predecessors and themselves. Between meetings the trustees study reams of reports...
...first honeymooned at Niagara Falls, Murphy was a daring young American who was only trying to make good. He was a farm boy newly arrived in San Francisco when the idea dawned on him; he had previously been a stagecoach driver, undertaker, deputy sheriff. Bedding manufacturers snapped at his scheme, and by 1910 were producing 250,000 Murphy beds a year. But the bed became far more than just a commercial success when the budding movie colony saw in it a hilarious prop for slapstick comedy. By the mid-1920s, Murphy and his disappearing bed had beaten off imitators right...