Word: passing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Congress was last week asked to pass a measure allowing corporations to deduct from their income tax all sums which they give for charitable, social-welfare or unemployment-relief purposes. Individuals already have this exemption. Corporations heretofore have been forbidden it. They pay a flat 12% income tax, whereas individuals pay up to 25%. If Congress passes the bill, a likely thing, it will be the greatest boost organized charity has received for a long time. For, although Chairman Hawley of the House Ways & Means Committee introduced the resolution to Congress, the push to enactment really began with James Herbert...
Garrison opened the scoring in the second period when he took Saltonstall's pass and pushed it into the net. Soon afterward Harvard again threatened when Hilliard, Adams, and Holland were all in the penalty box at the same time...
...straight games in two seasons, was thought to be tired. Instead, Knute Rockne's various prancing backfielders at once bewildered the over-rated Trojans with brilliant plays, throwing for losses Southern California's famed Plungers Plinckert and Duffield. Marchmont Schwartz flipped an 11-yd. pass to Quarterback Carideo who trotted eight yards farther for the first touchdown. They made three more after that. Their own goal was never in danger. Notre Dame 27, Southern California 0. Getting up speed for their charity game with Army, the Navy plungers slammed through the Penn line, tossed passes for long gains...
...invention may have the far more momentous effect of overcoming the carbon monoxide (CO) evil in motor car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which can be car traffic. His Moto-Vita, which is a bridge of platinum and nickel wires (weight i½ Ib.) over which the exhaust gases pass. This bridge is electrically connected, through a tiny battery, to a sensitive ammeter on the pilot's (chauffeur's) instrument board. If the fuel mixture is too rich, the unburned gasoline vapor-hydrogen, carbon monoxide-will cause the platinum wires to glow hot (by its catalytic property), resist electricity...
There is a large amount of reading, all of which, except for some excerpts from the writings of American statesmen and politicians, is heavy and very slow. However, the lectures cover almost all the material that is in the reading, so with good lecture notes a student can pass the course...