Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evaluations made by staff and alumni are used more than the reports of teachers and principals, because the admissions committee knows who its interviewers are, and can take their tastes and idiosyncrasies into account. But secondary school reports may provide the crucial fodder for a hunch, Peterson says, "especially if the writer avoids cliches...
...check the operation of a vague generality under fire, take a typical example: "Hume brought empiricism to its logical conclusion: "The question is asked. "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age he lived in?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with, "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age he lived in, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or what...
...made up in battering-ram power. After turning pro in 1947, he piled up 42 straight victories, most of them by knockouts, before earning a title bout with Champion Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952. "This kid can't fight," scoffed Walcott. "If I don't whip him, take my name out of the record books." Thirteen rounds later, Walcott was out, knocked senseless by a classic right. Marciano successfully defended his title six times before retiring in 1956, after a career that was as notable for his gentlemanly manners outside the ring as for his ferocity inside...
...part of its benefits for middle-income individuals, the House bill would reduce basic income tax rates enough to grant $2.4 billion of relief after ten years and allow taxpayers who do not itemize deductions to take a standard maximum deduction of $2,000, or 15% of their income. They are now allowed only 10%, or $1,000. To allow the higher deduction, Kennedy said, would give an undesirable "double benefit" to middle-income taxpayers. To avoid that, he would raise the standard maximum deduction only to 12%, or $1,400. As for taxpayers near the poverty line, Kennedy proposed...
...blew into the Hotel Ambassador carrying a little bag. He knocked at the suite of Valentino's bereaved lover, Pola Negri, told the maid he was a physician and introduced himself to Miss Negri as a close friend of Valentino's. "Rudy would have wanted me to take care of you, my dear," Miss Negri later reported his saying. "You are very thoughtful," she replied...