Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, according to despatches, Germany's increase in juvenile suicide was traced to scholastic failures. Last year the suicide rate among persons 16 and under was ten to a million, thrice the rate of France, practically ten times that of the U. S. Most of the suicides were boys who had received bad marks and felt, in addition to their shame, fear of parental anger and chastisement, their careers having been mapped out for them from birth, and their flunks connoting life failure...
There is really no great reason to rate Princeton as an odds-on favorite this afternoon. The record of the Tigers this season is not impressive; it includes three minor victories, one tie, and one defeat. Harvard's three wins and two losses are nothing to boast about, but they will not discourage the Crimson team today...
...airship is practically independent of weather, as storms with attendant high winds merely delay progress to windward. . . . Severe thunderstorms and disturbances with strong vertical air currents may be avoided by changes of course, as these disturbances usually extend over a comparatively small area and move at a rate of speed well below that of an airship. Thus the airship can avoid the tornado, and may prove to be more secure in Kansas than a stone house...
...attempts to foster separatist movements in the Rhineland! It seems almost incredible we should have escaped from that series of nightmares, yet this solemn pledge intends nothing less. The spectre that held the peoples of France, Belgium and Germany in perpetual fear has been exorcised, at any rate for a period in which the will of the present generation may operate...
...many of them as possible. Observers agree that the immediate situation in China is too unstable to warrant proximate withdrawal of British tariff-supervision. Presumably as many minor points of friction as possible will be cleared up at the conference; and it is thought probable that the tariff rate will be raised from 5% to 7½% in order to increase the revenue to a point where China can abolish some of her internal taxes...