Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Bs (boogie-woogie, barrelhouse and blues) with Co-workers Victoria Schools and June Allyson; Maureen Cannon as a forsaken lyrical young lady, singing of her desire to be a Shady Lady Bird, and stopping the show dead in its tracks; triple-talented Betty Anne Nyman as a tap-dancing, singing, acrobatic prom date; a rousing Buckle Down, Winsocki, with a full chorus led by minuscule Tommy...
...Crimson Network reception of FM broadcasts in the near future will remain a rosy dream. On the other hand connections with nearby college stations by telephone may soon enable the Network to tap wider sources...
Technically, the normal tax rate was not increased; it is still 24%. But the new bill added a 7% "surtax," lifts the effective rate to 31%. (For incomes of less than $25,000, it is 6% and 30%.) Purpose: to tap the income corporations get from their $31,000,000,000 investment in Government bonds. Such income is ex empt from "normal" taxes, subject to surtaxes...
...cartel (which controls 97% of the world's crude rubber production) has yet to produce up to the previous quota of 100%. Moreover, rubber trees take seven years to mature; so output cannot be increased overnight. But there are some idle trees to be tapped in the East Indies now. The big plantation owners, who tap their trees carefully, will probably not increase their production much. But the natives, who grow half the East Indies rubber and whose real capacity is at best a district officer's guess, will tap trees to the point of destroying them...
...heroine says "mummy" and "tummy" and uses the maternal we. Other characters greet the reader with "We're doing the Saturday Review puzzle." All the men smoke pipes, which they rub against their cheeks or tap on their knees while they talk. Often they talk less like human beings than like editorials in a liberal weekly. Says Theo's lover: "We sit here in America, and across the ocean we see death and denial enmeshing a great people. For there's no use now imagining that Hitler is a temporary aberration. How long can it last...