Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basic ideals of teaching. The little red schoolhouse has joined the immortals but its work is being continued in elaborately constructed buildings under the supervision of teachers who are better trained and fitted for their positions than ever in the history of the nation. In this case, at any rate, expansion has not resulted in degradation, and the American public may remain contented that its investments in elementary schooling are bringing valuable returns...
...There is no room in TIME for the second-rate, the inconsequential. The following new books are advertised here by their publishers only at the express invitation of TIME's Book Editor. Not all the good books are here advertised; but all the books here advertised are good...
Chief Statistician Louis I. Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. published surprising statistics on juvenile suicide in general. Among two million persons aged 15 to 19 the suicide rate for white boys was 6.7 per 100,000 in 1911, 6.16 in 1912. In 1913 it reached a maximum of 7.3 per 100,000. In 1923 it dropped to a minimum of 1.7. In 1925 and 1926 it rose to 3.9 per 100,000. Until 1921, more girls than boys aged 15 to 19 killed themselves. Lately the boy's rate has been the higher...
Birmingham's growing pains were fierce ones. She had lots of labor and lots of ore, but both of low quality. She had nine railroads but these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...
...students there have been brought to a gradual understanding of the importance of properly utilizing their pre-examination respite. To suddenly thrust such a change on the college students of this country might raise serious difficulties for the plan, and possibly result in its failure. At any rate the experiment, if carried out by Harvard university, will be watched with interest by the other colleges of the country and may result in a general move for more initiative on the part of the students and less paternalism on the part of the faculties. --The Michigan Daily...