Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best dressed, most charming, least objectionable and what not members of the graduating class. Perhaps it is the American mania for statistics, or the general vernal disintegration of mental faculties which produce these announcements that bring such joy to the hearts of collar manufacturers and movie stars. At any rate they are the vogue in many places, including, Princeton. And although Harvard possesses no superlatives of its own it has managed this year to receive mention in the array of immortals; for is it not ranked by the discerning Princeton seniors as the third of the favorites women's college...
...literature worthy of the name, a court system distinguished by the Sacco-Vanzetti case--was anything new needed as an addition to the list of horrors in this state to give point to a recent suggestion that Harvard College be moved to Dayton, Tenn.? The new atrocity, at any rate is here--noted in your news columns of Friday May 13, with the announcement that vaccination is to be a requisite for entrance to Harvard next year. Will the people who howl so vigorously about personal rights in connection with prohibition please step forward? Oh, you are silent...
...Chicago, Irving K. Pond, one-time President of the American Institute of Architects, celebrated his 70th birthday last week with able handsprings and headsprings.* On hearing this news, Chester Lavere, 57, another Chicagoan, seized a rope, demonstrated his own athletic age by skipping it at a rate of 1 2/3 skips per second for two hours, a grand total of 12,000 skips. Skipper Lavere was puffing and heaving when he stopped. Later he explained his agility: "I eat raw meat, everything raw. Eating raw stuff was the only thing that enabled me to do this. . . . From now on, there...
...BARNUM is perhaps best known to the American people for his statistics on the birth rate of the American sucker, but in his autobiography he sedulously avoids the attitude expressed in his famous aphorism. Rather does he paint himself, in loose, easy sentences stuffed with first personal pronouns, as a man with a mission...
...special conference railroad round trip rate of one and one half fares will be effective from all points in New England and the Middle Atlantic states. Tickets will be issued only upon presentation of a special identification certificates, a suppy of which will be sent to each Association. The station is at East Northfield, Massachusetts which is on the Boston and Maine and Central Vermont Railways...