Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assessor William P. Richards of the District of Columbia announced that the White House and its grounds are now worth some 22 millions. No other Washington residence rates so high. The tax on it would be $374,000 per annum-if the U. S. had to pay property taxes to the District of Columbia. A controversy has been bubbling on this question of tax-exempt U. S. properties. Tax Assessor Richards' figures showed that if all taxable U. S. property in the District paid the present rate of $1.70 per $100, the total would...
...this analysis I prove (to my satisfaction, at any rate) my point that you do not give me my full TIME-value in this FASHIONS department. I shall not cancel my subscription for what is to me a complete loss of 5% in TIME. But I shall appreciate your eliminating the department...
...Compensation at the rate of $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for overseas service, exclusive of the first 60 days of service...
...Choice of Electives is the fact that there has been an increase during the last year in the number of candidates for honors, and that the number of men concentrating in English is steadily decreasing, while the number in Economics is rapidly on the increase. If a similar rate of change continues another year the Department of Economics will include more men than the Department of English...
Having pointed out that the Philippine Islands have more inhabitants than any Independent country in South or Central America, and that at the rate of its present increase, the population will soon equal that of Japan, the Filipino leader said. "There is more leadership among the Filipinos than among any people of Europe. The Islands have given every evidence of their capability of governing themselves; the government has been in the hands of Filipinos for years. Although the percentage of illiteracy may be high, is literacy a fair test of capacity of self-government...