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Word: incorrectly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1890
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...above associated press despatch appeared in all the Boston papers yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bollis said that the statement was wholly incorrect and should be denied. Some time ago there was thought of some such arrangement, but the matter has entirely fallen through, and the above report is totally erroneous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Denied. | 12/4/1890 | See Source »

...statement in Saturday's CRIMSON that tickets for the game were sold at Connelly's in Boston for eight dollars was incorrect. Mr. Connelly sold none for over $3.00 and those he had paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/25/1890 | See Source »

...injudicious management of the state, taxation is made the instrument for extorting money for purposes foreign to the original. Taxes are generally divided into two classes-direct and indirect-although these two classes are rather vaguely defined even by political economists. An indirect tax is in many cases an incorrect tax, for it enhances the value of an article far beyond the original value of the article and the tax. For this very reason, there is a close connection between indirect taxation and pauperism, since the poor are obliged to buy in small quantities commodities upon which indirect taxes have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hon. David A. Wells on Taxation. | 3/20/1890 | See Source »

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