Word: rated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even more prone than Mr. Clark to rate the value of college training on a dollar and cents basis, state authorities are sure to administer even the most carefully constructed statutes in a mode dangerous to liberal tradition. To regulate the opportunity for the study of the arts and sciences by financial consideration is to forget completely the cultural motive behind these studies. Were Mr. Clark's state regulation to operate, learning for its own sake might easily be pushed aside, and universities become mere factories to feed professional ranks. One would prefer to find the remedy for the conditions...
Scoring at the rate of more than a goal a minute, the University polo team defeated the 110th Field Artillery by the score of 32 to 13 1-2 and won first place in the Class A division of the Commonwealth Armory Indoor Polo Tournament with a no defeat record...
Bull Market. The strong bull cocoa market was somewhat disturbed at a U.S. Department of Commerce estimate of a record-breaking African cocoa crop. Even after this bearish announcement, however, trading continued at twice its normal rate. Commodity markets in general have been exceedingly active. On the Coffee and Sugar Exchange, for instance, a seat last week sold for $31,000, a new peak price. It was thought that Federal Reserve attacks on Wall Street were diverting money to the commodities, though this theory did not well coincide with Wall Street's recently renewed activity...
...typewriter was built in China by the Commercial Press, the largest printing establishment in the far East. It is the result of steady improvement since its invention in 1919, though it is not yet entirely efficient. A capable operator can write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist...
...movie is judged by the box office returns it brings, and in this respect the talkies have surely made good. The talkies are now just in their infancy. If one compares the automobile of 20 years ago to the present model and then judges the talkies by the same rate of development one can imagine what they will soon amount...