Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said Ford: "A six-day week is all right for machines but a five-day week is enough for men." Crowds of 25,000 and more swarmed last week at the gates of the Ford plants, clamoring for the new jobs. They were being taken on at the rate of some 500 a day. Although many came from far East and West in quest of work, preference was given to men already living in Detroit...
...expedient of having a student translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek at morning prayers, and the New Testament from English into Greek at evening prayers, so as to combine piety and scholarship. But he did much else than teach. The College was supported largely by a "country rate" laid by the General Court in the towns, whose tax-collectors sometimes needed a personal visit before they would "come across...
...only the taxes but the students' board and tuition were paid in kind--in corn and wheat, cloth and shoes, cows, and other animals including "a goat of the Watertown rate which died," so that the College steward must have conducted a wholesale store...
Unless the rate of increase in patients suffering from respiratory diseases at Stillman Infirmary jumps up alarmingly in the near future, there is no possibility that Harvard University will close, according to Dr. P. H. Means '17, the University Medical Adviser...
...undoubtedly true that America is not turning out the composers and musicians that Europe is producing," said Reinald Werrenrath, famous baritone, to a CRIMSON reporter just before his Symphony Hall concert last Sunday. "But give us time. Europe was brimming over with first rate men when there were nothing but Indians on Broadway. Europe has centuries of culture back of it, while America is just getting on her feet, musically. The only man I know of here who has done consistently, excellent work in composing is Mr. Deems Taylor, who certainly deserves his position as leader of American composers...