Word: per
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Perón's speech last September threatening to hang his enemies that brought Father Dunphy back into action. He chided the President from his pulpit. "It is not Christian," he wrote to El Pueblo, "for those in high places to foment or incite to civil war. Nor is it Christian to elevate hatred to the extreme of wanting to annihilate those who hold differing opinions...
...estimated rate of two one-thousandths of a second per century...
Higher costs for repair, labor, and heating have forced Radcliffe rate rises over the past two years. Last spring room and board rates jumped an extra $20 per term, while tuition this year mounted from $450 to $525. A fifth course, previously included in the overall tuition fee, must now be paid for separately...
Donying reports of a trade war, Frank M. Folsom, president of the Radio Corporation of America, introduced a new-type long-playing record last Tuesday that plunged the record industry into hopeless confusion. Columbia, ballyhooing an entire symphony on one record at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, was given a sudden slap in the face by RCA, which claims its speed of 45 r.p.m. is the best for "completely distortion-free music of unprecedented brilliance and clarity of tone...
...Taft bill would have passed out 300 million dollars to the states for elementary and secondary schools. Each state was to get a minimum of five dollars for each child; and the poorer states were scheduled to get more--up to nearly 30 dollars per head in Mississippi. Taft figured that he had the biggest bugaboo whipped--federal "dictatorship" in the little red schoolhouse. He said, in debate: "The only function of the federal government would be that of an auditor.... It will have no more to say about the exact method by which education shall be administered...