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...insurgents countered with an offer to compromise on 40% surtaxes and an additional cut in normal taxes on small incomes. Failing this, they threatened to vote with the Democrats...
...regular Republicans declined to agree to a greater cut in the normal surtaxes, on the ground that it would create too great a deficit, but raised their bid on the surtaxes to 37?...
...knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that "the case for making Latin the normal groundwork of a liberal education is overwhelming" is no longer resented as an unwarranted bit of pedagogy...
...stories, this time dealing with college life, in which the author sets out with virgin sword to slay the ogre of iniquity who has so long beset the world. Here he starts out by laying bare the sin and wickedness of our generation. I, being a more or less normal child of the said generation, have become to some degree weary of continually being sacrificed by youthful authors on their altars to Moloch--a state which turns to resentment when we poor boys are attacked instead of our sister "flappers." None of us are perfect, and I always have...
...also found that a wide angle between the ribs, at the point where they diverge in front, is a frequent finding in infections of the gallbladder. And they observed that the jaws and teeth of persons with gall-bladder disturbances were likely to differ in measurements from those of normal persons. While none of the points noted was absolute, the conditions recurred with a surprising consistency in the patients examined. A complete investigation may yet lead to observations of great importance in the diagnosis of disease...