Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...branch offices in almost every provincial city and town of consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names as L'Union Française d'Emission and La Société Syndicate Fonciére were organized and floated at the rate of slightly less than one a day. When the crash came some 400 employes of Swindleress Hanau organized themselves into the "Society for the Defense of Honor," protesting that they had believed themselves to be engaged in selling absolutely legitimate securities to friends, neighbors, relatives, priests...
...fact that, at the time when some of these scholarships were awarded, the tuition was considerably less than it is at present, it is necessary to increase them up to $400, the present tuition rate...
...which has become characteristic of American industry." He cited the Mississippi flood, the cotton depression, and a temporary abeyance of motor-making (Ford's style change), as the causes of a recession of indices last fall which was recovered last spring. He said: "Unemployment was relatively unimportant . . . the rate of real wages and the standard of living of the masses of the people remained higher than anywhere else in the world...
...even sectional championships are usually disputed. If one victory is taken as proof of superiority, it might be shown that a grammar school eleven in Eastern Iowa has the most powerful football team in the U. S. If not, it is only possible to single out individuals and rate them as solitary heroes. This thankless task is attended to by sports writers on whose hands time hangs heavy when the football season is over. What is remarkable about this performance is this: the pickers of Ail-American teams not infrequently agree with each other to some slight extent...
...even more sunny than ever he-came Wall Street to Wyckoff. A sympathetic understanding blossomed quickly between the onetime phonograph promoter and the would-be prima donna. It might have been music. At any rate it grew and grew, until the then Mrs. Wyckoff thought best to inquire...