Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Using the coined term "abyssolith" meaning bottomless stone, Professor Daly explained the nature of the connecting masses between the volcanoes and molten interior. When the abyssolith's supply of surface lava combined with steam and other gases under ter- rific pressure is exhausted, the volcano goes...
...years. The Revenue Bill passed by the Senate last month called for: 1) a flat 18% on all corporate profits; 2) further modification of capital gains taxes by lowering not the amount of taxable gains but the tax rate on capital gains-from a maximum of 79% on short-term gains to 15% on gains made over a term longer than 18 months. The conference bill, as anticipated, represented: 1) victory for the Senate on capital gains, and 2) for the House on undistributed profits. If Congress approves and the President signs it. corporate profits will be taxed a flat...
Regarding the influence this might have on the often-rumored third term of President Roosevelt, Holcombe declared: "I have never supposed that Mr. Roosevelt would consider running for a third consecutive term. But no President would want to weaken himself in his second term by making statements about the future which were unnecessary...
...just as Planner Townsend was about to give himself into the hands of a U. S. Marshal to begin his term, word came that Franklin Roosevelt had lent a sympathetic ear to Senator McAdoo, had pardoned Planner Townsend. Apparently not in the least crestfallen at losing a month's privacy and martyrdom, Dr. Townsend said: "It is complete vindication and an act of contrition on the part of Congress...
Great Dane "Sandy," study time boning up on Contracts, which he failed at the end of his first term. Aside from Contracts and Common Law Actions, he has stood well in studies, has courted popularity but not publicity. Among intimates he calls his father "the old man." Last week he completed arrangements for two broadcasts-one this week, when, as an ex-Harvard oarsman, he will help Ted Husing comment on the Columbia-Navy crew race on New York's Harlem River from a bus top; the other next week as guest of Vitalis ("Just think of the word...