Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Prix de Rome is not a horse race but a prize, valued at $8,000, yearly awarded to one U. S. painter and one U. S. sculptor. If he wins the prize, an artist goes to Rome and lives there at the rate of $1,600 a year for three years; his models, tuition and transportation are paid for. Last week, this year's winners were announced; one was Donald M. Mattison, student at the up-and-coming Yale School of Fine Arts, who won the prize for painting. The other was Sculptor David K. Rubins who works...
...real, honest-to-goodness fellow. The luncheon on Tuesday was a very pleasant affair. The conversation was largely about mutual friends. He talked with me as with an old friend. The President did not talk politics at all. The President appeared to be very well. Mrs. Coolidge looked first rate. She was a charming woman, as she always was. The fact is that neither of them have changed, in my opinion...
...both were quite unmumped. Persons with respect for Senators viewed the gossip-swollen Club-Fellow with alarm. The sheetlet's irresponsibility was further revealed by its evident confusion of the Senate's two Robinsons. Still talking about "Senator Joe Robinson" The Club-Fellow said: "At any rate they [mumps] have kept Robinson quiet for a while about the oil scandals. Perhaps some of the Democrats are glad something stilled him, if only temporarily...
...steps in financial policy to which he is pledged: 1) amortization of the floating debt by a large internal loan; 2) ratifications (possibly after renegotiation) of the Franco-U. S. and Franco-British debt settlements; 3) restoration of the franc to a gold basis, probably at the present stabilized rate of 25 francs to one dollar; 4) acceptance from Germany of a (reduced) lump sum in payment of her reparations, this sum to be derived from the sale of the German railway bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
...next to Burns in leading the regular nine in hitting. Early in the season, the problem of filling the third outfield position was considered one of the most serious facing Coach F. G. Mitchell, but Hardie, besides showing no weakness as a fielder, has blossomed into a first rate hitter, and is one of the heaviest sluggers on the squad. At present, Hardie is far in the lead among the extra-base hitters, with four triples...