Word: self-supporting
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...illogical for a country that prizes education enough to offer college students draft deferments to turn about and hinder their attempts at partial self-support. President Eisenhower seems to agree. He has proposed that a student be considered a legitimate tax exemption regardless of the size of his own income, providing that be actually receives support from home. Naturally, he would continue to pay a tax on carnings above...
...campaign was quietly launched last year as a simple patriotic movement applying to all churches, with the slogan, "Self-rule, self-support and self-propagation." Protestants had no reason to protest the formula itself, since their China missions had largely operated as theoretical steppingstones to the establishment of independent, self-supporting churches. The Catholics, with their ties to Rome, were more suspicious...
...will also complete the reformation of the Chinese churches in the direction of self-government, self-propagation and self-support within the shortest possible time, so as to get rid of the American imperialists' misuse of Christianity as a means of carrying on their aggressive conspiracy in China...
...River. If it had not been for the blue Columbia River, the Northwest's horde of new people might have seemed dangerously like a liability last week-as incapable of self-support in time of future depression as the dust-bowlers of the '30s in times of drought. But the river-sliding placidly past its deep, black coulees, along leagues of empty sagebrush, through its lovely Cascades Canyon to the sea-seemed to hold the key to real prosperity...
...plan to restore Japanese trade. U.S. trustbusters were still locked in stalemate with the Zaibatsu. Last summer the U.S. State Department intervened. Top Planner George Kennan took a long look at Japan. He recommended a basic change in policy, aimed at Japan's self-government, self-respect and self-support. Last December, a firm economic directive was finally drafted for MacArthur...