Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under either method, the first $5,000 of excess profits is taxexempt. Small corporations may carry over unused portions of their excess-profits credit from year to year, but large ones (earning over $25,000) may not. Partly exempt are the profits of mining companies, airlines. Scattered through the bill is many another exemption, qualification, abstruse gimmick. Finally, cases of "abnormalities" may be adjudicated by the Treasury's Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Since such "abnormalities" are not defined, the Wall Street Journal foresaw that corporations would pay the tax only under protest. Under such a bill, "abnormalities" will...
...energies to defend. Freedom of speech and of opinion within university communities is peculiarly necessary to the survival of our national liberties and of our civilization. It is the special function of universities to provide a place in which men may seek to discover truth by the method of free inquiry--of fearless investigation of every question which concerns mankind. These who participate in such inquiry must be free to state the conclusion which they have reached without regard to whether those conclusions are pleasing or displeasing to the university authorities or to other influential persons...
...comedy especially leaves little leeway for originality, although Prokofieff's comic score to Lieutenant Kije, now recorded as a separate suite, is a masterpiece of its kind. A couple of years back, movie composers tinkered with classical themes as seeds for their music. The turned out by this method some very unusual scores, notably that of Swiss Family Robinson, which was built up on Schubert quartets. But the method had obvious disadvantages. To those who knew the music being played, it was harrowing to hear it repeated over and over again, piecemeal, in wrong keys, with wierd and incorrect harmonies...
...once did Franklin Roosevelt mention Willkie's name or the name of either party. His method was the same oblique style he had used the previous week before the Teamsters' Union...
...keener feeling for the popular mood than Franklin Roosevelt. His dramatic destroyer-bases deal was received with cheers that drowned out criticism of the secret and questionable method by which it was carried out. Last week signs were not lacking that once again the President might be planning a coup to be justified later by expediency...