Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen...
...might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
...game started at top speed and continued at the same rate throughout, being marked by numerous fouls on the part of Harvard's players. The Crimson team, composed of three sophomores playing in their first University game, showed up like true veterans. The scoring combination of Captain R.H. O'Connell '29, T. G. Upton '31, J. S. Rex '31, and H. T. Wenner '30 displayed unusual coordination for a team whose only games so far have been with the second team and the Freshmen...
...youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
...Inasmuch as the oil industry had been overproducing every year since 1918, there were on hand large surplus stocks of oil. During 1927, production increased to about 900,000,000 barrels. Furthermore, new wells are being constantly discovered. Only last week a new Kansas well began flowing at the rate of 7,000 barrels a day; an Oklahoma well "came in" at 2,500 barrels...