Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...perfectly fair, but in practice it is most unjust. It would be difficult to ascertain the exact amount of a man's income, his debts and his salary. The fluctuations in a business man's salary would make it almost impossible to determine his income. In Germany, England and Switzerland it has been found to be most harmful, and would it be much better in France? The income tax has made a most conspicuous failure in America; would that same tax succeed in France, a country most like the United States...
...solidarity is appropriate not only to the members of a single college or a single university, but to the common brotherhood of universities and colleges. I am on that account bold enough to speak in behalf of delegates from universities and colleges in Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Cuba, Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand. Sir, I convey to you on behalf of all these a message of heart-felt congratulation and good wishes on the occasion of your inauguration in the words of the cable message which I have just received from Emmanuel College...
...Department of Geology, will return to Cambridge today from Germany, where he has been since October as exchange professor at the University of Berlin. Professor Davis left Cambridge for Europe at the close of the last academic year and spent the summer in geological study in Switzerland. His professorship in the University of Berlin expired with the first half-year and he has since been engaged in special work in geology...
After being graduated from Yale in 1889, Mr. Pinchot studied forestry in France, Germany and Switzerland. Later he organized forestry work in Baltimore, and opened an office as a consulting forester. In 1896 he became secretary of the Forestry Commission of the National Academy of Science, and had great influence with President Cleveland in setting aside the 21,000,000 acres of forest reservations...
...Germany, 12; Japan, 7; France, 6; India, 6; Cuba, 5; Russia, 5; Italy, 3; Argentine Republic, 2; British West Indies, 2; Bulgaria, 2; Egypt, 2; Mexico, 2; New Zealand, 2; South Africa, 2; Australia, 1; Brazil, 1; Colombia, 1; Holland, 1; Korea, 1; Peru, 1; Roumania, 1; Siam, 1; Switzerland, 1; Turkish Empire...