Word: ascertainable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports, 1888, Vol. 99, 100, p. 700. - (2) Creates discontent: Bastable, Public Finance...
...MILLS,Man. H. U. F. B. A.CHESS CLUB. - The object of the fall chess tournament is two-fold: First, to ascertain what players shall represent Harvard in the intercollegiate tournament at New York; second, to promote acquaintance and fraternity among all the chess players in college. By entering the tournament men meet many other players of the same strength as themselves, and it is therefore desired that every chess player, whether he has played much or little, will not hesitate to enter. This is the last day for entries in the blue-book at Bartlett...
...dinner Wednesday evening a vote will be taken of the members at the general tables at Memorial Hall, that the board of directors may ascertain the sentiment of those members in regard to the change in seating arrangements now being considered by the board...
...German universities a student's certificate of admission admits him to art galleries free and to theatres at half price, and protects him to ascertain extent from arrest...
...Private charity is the best means of furnishing the necessary aid, because (a) it can best ascertain the actual number of those in absolute want, and (b) by exercising a personal and moral influence it tends to strengthen the laborer's self-dependence...