Word: slough
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...issue becomes more interesting, however, with H. W. Miller's "Touch and Go." The author again displays his skill in dialogue. He starts out brilliantly, but ends up in a slough of stage directions...
...rest upon such a firm basis as ours. This limit of $4,000 is a natural one between the over-taxed middle classes and the under-taxed rich classes. This tax has solved the problem of two wars for England, has relieved Germany and Italy from a slough of debt and aided our own country from a heavy burden just after the civil...