Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed that at any rate a Cardinal had spoken once again as Cardinals used to speak long before Garibaldi's mob, or Vittorio Emanuele's gay-plumed cavalry assaulted and captured the Seven Hills...
...Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger...
...Walls of the new Fogg Art Museum, begun last July, have reached the third floor line and at the present rate of construction, the contracting firm of Hegeman and Harris of New York City expects to have the building completed by next fall as first planned. The museum, which will combine facilities for class room and laboratory instruction in Fine Arts as well as for the public exhibition of art collections, was designed by Charles A. Coolidge '81, of the firm of Coolidge, shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbott of Boston...
...latter body practically without alteration (TIME, Nov. 23, 30), last week passed through its third stage the total tax reduction from $325,736,000 (as proposed in the bill as it came from the House) to $500,000,000, this to be done by a large reduction in the rate at which the public debt is retired...
...MacCracken of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) was present among the Presbyterians, and though he made no notable pronouncement, in his annual presidential report, published at Easton during his absence, he had written of the growth and maturity of U.S. secondary schools, which are now being built at the rate of one a day. "There is little in the college life of the last generation which does not find its reflection and imitation in the life of the preparatory school of today. If the college is to maintain its claim to a position superior to the preparatory school, it must intensify...