Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...review brings to mind a comment from a teacher (in Texas) about some children from California schools, which have gone, to put it mildly, hog-wild over modern education: "They're pretty weak on the fundamentals-they can't spell, and they don't write legibly ; they can't read well, and they don't know much about arithmetic. But they're beautifully adjusted-they just know that they know everything...
...York police announced on hearing the details, one of the most amazing rescues on record. It was also the kind of tale that gives reporters a chance to write of the cynical city's great human heart, and within a few hours Sarno was photographed and interviewed by every newspaper in town. The New York Herald Tribune announced that the boy, on being caught, said calmly: "I haven't got my shoes on." It later turned out that little Francis, a child of Puerto Rican parents, knew only one English word, "Godfrey," and because of the influence...
...brought up amid the regalia of the society she grew to fight. At her Brahman father's palatial Allahabad home, there were English governesses and gardens, dogs and Dresden, pony carts, and even porridge in the morning. Vijaya Lakshmi, who was born in August 1900, could write English before she was five, but she could not speak her own Hindi until she was nine. Her father, a wealthy, pro-British lawyer, would allow Indian food to be served only once a week, and was pleased when his daughter got an English nickname, "Nan." Accustomed to the comfortable acceptance...
...blanket extension. The biggest is that the immediate loss in tax revenue would be far more than the Treasury could stand. Tax experts put it at $2 billion the first year of such a plan and as high as $10 billion in the fifth year. Tax losses during the write-off period would never be recouped from many industries after the equipment was paid for. They would merely buy new items of equipment each year as old ones were written...
There is nothing revolutionary in such proposals. Canada already uses the declining balance system. Britain now grants first-year write-offs as high as 20%. Sweden has a similar system. Whatever tax revenues the U.S. might lose would be an ultimate gain for the taxpayers, by increasing the productivity of the whole economy and thus lowering prices. By spurring the demand for heavy equipment-the backbone of the economy-there would also be another bar to a depression. Above all, by making expansion and modernization a continuous rather than an emergency process, the U.S. would keep its industries always prepared...