Word: fares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more prosperous times they clapped terrific taxes on Portuguese industry, built up a strong Treasury reserve. Recently finding that bus competition was injuring the State Railways, the President was prompted to issue a characteristic decree. Bus rates hereafter must be 15% more than the corresponding third-class railway fare...
...even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was seen to borrow taxi fare. In his talks with Comrade Litvinov recognition by the U. S. of the Soviet Union was undoubtedly mentioned but the soft opening wedge was a great wad of cotton. Discreetly the Moley-Litvinov meeting of minds was announced not in London but at Washington. The R. F. C., with specific approval...
...present keyboard, Professor Dvorak discovered, has many one-handed words which make the left hand do 47% more work than the right. Examples: greater, greatest, sad. saddest, safe, safer, was, were, care, dare, fare, minimum, you, in, on. On the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard no word or syllable can (he says) be written by the right hand alone, and only about ten common words and a very small number of syllables with the left hand alone. High school misspellers started the research which eventually led to the Dvorak-Dealey keyboard. Professor Dvorak about ten years ago wondered why high school typists...
STRANGER'S RETURN-Phil Stong-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Only Iowans can properly judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting...
...POLICEMAN-John Rhode, Helen Simpson. Gladys Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Milward Kennedy-Morrow ($2). With the aid of an ingenious setting-the murder of a belligerent newspaper publisher-four famed members of the Detection Club trade characters to make fit fare for post-graduate mystery readers...