Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Section 722 specifies the means by which a corporation can modify its prewar, four-year excess profits base on which the tax is estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits...
Coach Stahl's lineup will undergo a slight shakeup, with High Francke taking over Conlon's left field post, and Brewster Wolfe moving from the B shortstop position to take Falsey's place...
Defensively, but with no marked awareness of a slight contradiction, Churchill added: "If in some directions they have taken an indulgent view of German U-boats ... or have continued active exportations to Germany, they made amends ... at Gibraltar...
...Slight, bespectacled Professor Sakimura poked around the Reich, peered critically into factories pumping out iron, steel, light metals, chemicals and other vitals of war. He took time off from research to marry a Dutch girl. His domestic life was happy. But the more he studied and observed, the worse grew his ideological pains...
Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, squarely seated on the presiding archiepiscopal throne of Manhattan's jampacked St. Patrick's Cathedral for the celebration of the Mass of Pentecost,† blinked not an eyelash when a slight, Sunday-dressed worshiper stood up at the altar rail, heaved two poorly aimed eggs which splattered at the Archbishop's feet. The egg-thrower, a meek Czech alien, explained to the police: the Archbishop had "said something I didn't like...