Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone call. As you will find if you read the item, the call was given at Union City, N. J. to Charleston, S. C. The man talked 41 minutes and told the proprietor it cost $1.75. In reality it cost $67.60. I live in Davenport, Iowa, and asked the rate for a call from here to Charleston, S. C., and found it to be $2.70 the first three minutes and .90 for each minute after. Three from 41 is 38; 38 times .90 is 34.20; plus 2.70 for the first three minutes equals $36.90. I live farther from South Carolina...
...This was the price paid in Manhattan last week for eight pages from a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, the first book ever published. The pages, embracing the whole of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, was bought by the Phoenix Book Store. A complete Bible at this rate would cost...
Verily, noted the country, Milwaukee people look after their health. In 1924 only 72 of them committed suicide. Men can expect to live for 58.77 years, women for 60.70 years. The 1923 death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 of population...
...rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they howl in chorus, Dreiser and all his works once and forever. He knows nothing, utterly nothing of art. He is an offense in the sight of Heaven; his sloppy writing emanates from the vaporings of a tawdry, baudy, second-rate mind. Even a dog would not, in the Biblical phrase, return to such vomit...
...rate, whatever may be the cause, the fact is that a chapel with make no appeal to the majority of students, nor in a few years will its function be even remembered, as the present-day attitude towards Mem Hall Shows. If our object is in reality to aid the cause of education against war, let us take practical steps to that end through a Professor's Chair, or international scholarships, or some such means, rather than by raising merely another monument to the hypocrisy and futility of the Human face. Chester T. Lane...