Word: stiffer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Morgenthau wanted, among other things: 1) lower exemptions ($750 for single taxpayers, $1,500 for married couples) on incomes;- 2) a stiffer excess-profits tax; 3) mandatory joint returns for husbands & wives (which the House turned down) with "appropriate relief" when both husband and wife are wage earners; 4) a simpler method of computing taxes (from a table) for small wage earners...
Whether he will get it pronto is another matter. Sentiment in the Finance Committee seems to favor lowering exemptions, reviving mandatory joint returns. The Senate is resigned to a stiffer tax schedule than the House had stomach for. How big it will be, and where the money will come from, is anybody's guess...
...England Intercollegiate his Junior year, winning the coveted modal play crown by eight strokes. Cordingley did not thirve on the hand-to-hand competition of match play as well as did Graves and had a spotty early season record. He was called upon, however, to meet much stiffer opposition in his number one spot and won a definite place as one of the finest college golfers in the land. He was the chief Crimson standard bearer in the three intercollegiate in which he played, once going all the way to the semifinals...
...dues to the A.N.G. (on the grounds it was Communist-controlled); 3) refusal to accept the Guild as bargaining agent. The condemned: Ruth Phillips, rewrite girl ($500); Walter Marshall, ship-news reporter ($400); Charles E. Lang, head of night copy desk ($400). Stiff fines, they carried a stiffer time limit for payment: 30 days. Reporters Frank Doyle and Gregory McCullah, repentant sinners, got off with $50 fines plus back dues, payable in three months...
...France, met the French girl he afterwards married, got back to Harvard (and Porcellian and Hasty Pudding) to graduate just before the family fortunes collapsed. He had a brief spell of newspaper work, and then Joseph Baldwin was in politics up to the neck that his enemies said was stiffer than it need...