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Word: sixings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side, the utilities argue that the lower rates are a sham. Private companies pay 16 percent taxes while public ones pay six or seven percent in lieu of taxes. Public plants can also obtain finances at a low interest rate from the REA while the private company must go to the money market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture...

Author: By Edward J. Shack, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

What makes things good in the fact that from last year's runner-up teams for the Pentagonal League title, only six lattermen have graduated. An a result, the experience of what Coach John Chase calls a "pretty rough season" will be behind a big bloc of players...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Skaters, Girding for Opener, Boast an Experienced Team | 11/30/1949 | See Source »

...largest gift "for immediate use" to the University since the Carnegie Corporation gave $125,000 to the Russian Research Center last summer, it brings to $149,983.48 the sum donated by the society in the last six months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $100,00 Given To Cancer Study | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

Condon's has a low enough cover and a good enough six-piece band to make a visit desirable anyway. The addition of this soloist who looks like a junior executive makes such a pilgrimage almost compulsory. He treats a concert grand like an upright with newspaper behind the strings a la Chicago. That's no mean treatment, either...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: JAZZ | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...with Mr. Valpey and his assistants. I have seen every Harvard-Yale game (with one exception during the war--1941) sine 1905. The Yale-Harvard game this year was the worst exhibition of football that I have ever seen by a Harvard team. The record of having lost all six of the "Ivy" football games speaks for itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Fish Letter | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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