Word: sop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might be accomplished easily by limiting the lectures to plain discourses on elemental health problems and entirely eliminating the examination. Moreover, they should be given by Dr. Worcester, who because of his charm and lecturing ability is probably the only man who could make them worth hearing. As a sop to University Hall they could be made compulsory. The problem of sex hygiene could be handled far more adequately by a series of small conferences which might be very well held in each entry during the course of the year; or the present system of voluntary meetings might be continued...
Indications that the NRA in now beginning to face the realities of making a capitalist system work are given by the fact that labor has been denied its demand for representation on the committees which govern coded industries. As a sop the government may provide for boards of laborers and consumers to "observe." This is typical of the gradual way in which labor must be cased out of the picture, after having been put in with much idealistic fanfare...
...difficult transition from boards to celluloid has left O'Neill's "Emperor Jones" undamaged. The script of the short drama is used without change, with only a little prefatory matter added as a sop to Moronia. Since the additions are in the style of the original tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation...
...British taxpayer was concerned, there was only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters of the tax in January, one-quarter in July. The beer tax was reduced a penny a pint and brewers announced that this reduction would be passed on to consumers immediately. Another dispensation was permission...
...President will accept up to $100,000,000 in silver as payment on War debts at a rate of not more than 50? an ounce. This sop to boost the silver market holds good for only one year. The silver payments will be used for coinage to back an issue of silver certificates...