Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their retirement will postpone the date of complete solution. Only reduction by Act of Congress of the surtax rates to a level at which the inducement to invest in tax-exempt securities becomes negligible will destroy immediately and completely the tax-exempt evil, and reduction is logically the net step in the lightening of the tax burden imposed upon the country...
...other morning I found Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs) of Buffalo, at the sedate Murray Hill Hotel. An active, agile little woman, she is, who says that she presumes that The Step on the. Stair is her last book; but almost winks when she says it. She is a born storyteller. True, one does not find much of what is ordinarily known as fine writing in her books; but, neither does one find arid stretches. They are yarns built with a genius for amazing effects and drawing out suspense...
Expert critics agree that Gibbons, who is little more than a middleweight, will have " no chance." Others, equally expert, insist that the whole announcement is merely a bit of ballyhoo and that Tex Rickard will step in at the critical moment and transfer the fight to Boyle's Thirty Acres...
Died. Raphael Lewisohn, 55, celebrated painter and step-brother of Adolph Lewisohn, New York financier, in Paris. He was a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts...
...Ladies, step...