Word: tack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate: ¶Passed the Administration bill extending present excise and corporation tax rates-the bill on which the Democrats, led by Sam Rayburn (TIME. March 7), had unsuccessfully attempted to tack a $20-a-person income-tax reduction...
Like nearly every simple problem, this one has an obvious answer, and it is a little surprising that no one has done anything about it. Professor Donald C. McKay suggested a solution to the Dean of the Faculty recently: to tack an extra 15 minutes on the examination period, in which the questions would be handed out but the blue-books held until the time came to start writing. During the 15 minutes, students would be able to read the exam and think about it, but would be forbidden from writing anything or making notes...
WEST COAST AUTO BUYERS will soon pay up to $160 less a car under a new pricing and delivery system put into effect by General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. To cut the price spread between Detroit and the West Coast, the companies will tack higher transportation costs on cars sold within 1,200 miles of Detroit, use the additional revenue to lower freight to more distant markets...
What started the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Dubos on the new tack was a common and persistent question: Why is it that a man can carry around for years a throatful of disease-causing bacteria without getting sick, and then suddenly come down with a roaring infection caused by one of the bacteria he has harbored...
Nevertheless, barring the unforeseen-- the appearance of aceteylene blow torches for instance--future generation of Harvard men will return from a victory over Princeton and Yale soberly or otherwise, as the case may be, tack their program covers to the wall in deference to the tradition of while goal posts their predecessors fostered. Perhaps a dishonest few will sneak behind the Stadium and knock down the wooden goal posts on the practice field. Perhaps others will chip away the concrete in the Stadium itself. Or there might be a sudden rash of postgame helmet thefts...