Word: understands
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Something for Everybody. Individual taxpayers would find the new schedules as hard to understand as ever, but not at all difficult to take; there was something for everybody. Lifting of personal exemptions from $500 to $600 (and an extra $600 for those 65 or over) would take all or much of the sting out of the income tax for low-income families. For 7,400,000 lower-bracket families (up to $2,000 net income) it meant no more income tax at all. For about 55 of every 100 taxpayers-those with more than $2,000 but less than...
Very Serious? "It is fine for Truman to utter warnings. It is sensible to build up the armed forces. But Frenchmen, Belgians and Dutch cannot understand why, if the situation is 'very, very serious...
...They do not understand why the U.S. contents itself with giving moral backing to the five-power western European military pact. Either America intends to stop Russia from dominating Western Europe, or she does not. If she does, she ought to give full and formal military backing to the five-nations pact at Brussels. She ought to make arrangements for standardization of equipment, for the maintenance of airfields, for the establishment of a joint staff and command...
...founder of Harlem's Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. i). The increase of violence in juvenile delinquency, he said, goes hand in hand with the increase of comic books. Said Dr. Wertham: "We are getting to the roots of one of the contributing causes of juvenile delinquency. . . . You cannot understand present-day juvenile delinquency if you do not take into account the pathogenic and pathoplastic influence of the comic books." In plainer language: comic books not only inspire evil but suggest a form for the evil to take...
...portable radio into the Legislative Assembly at Edmonton. With one ear he followed the debate, with the other listened to a hockey game in Calgary. A conscientious chap, he kept fellow legislators informed of the score by hand signals. Maynard's enthusiasm was something every Canadian could understand. In Canada, hockey is the national game...