Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization and a penalty on brains, energy and enterprise, discourages new ventures and confirms old ventures in their monopolies...
While the British Navy acted last week to repair a serious breach in the British Empire defense, Viscount Craigavon, His Majesty's Prime Minister in Northern Ireland, scurried to London for an urgent conference with Warlord Winston Churchill on an equally serious problem: "Irish back door...
Flight v. Fun. Present medical fashion regards all alcoholics as neurotics and psychotics who drink to flee from harsh reality, overcome a feeling of inadequacy, or express homosexual tendencies kept under during sober periods. Doctors' great problem, says Director Nolan Dan Carpentier Lewis of New York State Psychiatric Institute, is to uncover the mental disorders which drive men to drink...
...same year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned by critics as unfit for mother, brother, sister or wife. Not for a couple of years was it generally admitted that the Second Mrs. Tanqueray had made Pinero England's top-flight problem playwright...
...That previous attempts, including those of famed Ernst Kretschmer of Germany, to sort human physiques had bogged down in a welter of mixed types, subtypes, hybrid types, etc., because individuals would not fit preconceived categories. Sheldon attacked the pigeonholing problem from another angle: that of three structural components or characteristics (of his own devising) body measurements would enable an investigator to determine, for any person, the strength of each component. That strength could be rated numerically on a scale of 1 (almost complete absence) to 7 (almost complete dominance). Then the individual's body type would be a three...