Word: rated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club, and is forced carefully to budget his board allowance is still in as bad a position as before. The difference of four meals is absurdly out of proportion with the one dollar reduction in price of the new proposal. In other words the man who selects the lower rate will have to pay an average of $.25 for the four extra meals or lose money. At current club or restaurant prices this is impossible or at least unhealthy. Those men not in a position to lose money are still penalized, a situation hardly in accord with the spirit...
Tariff things so far done by the Senate: inclusion of the Export Debenture Plan; exclusion of the President's power to flex rates 50% up or down; increases in agricultural rates; decreases in industrial rates. Tariff things undone: rate changes on sugar, dyes, paper, textiles et al; revision of the free list...
...like you, young man. I think we'll get along first rate together." He arose and as he departed took out a wad of bills, flipped five $100 notes to the painter...
...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...another column of this issue of the CRIMSON a former Cambridge student outlines what he considers to be the chief difficulties with the proposal to have $8.50 as a flate rate for board which will entitle House members to fourteen meals per, week. Analysis of the possible combinations of meals by which money may be saved or lost by individuals under this system affords an absorbing pastime for a free afternoon but is too complicated for treatment here. At any rate the whole situation boils down to the fact that men will in effect be required to take a large...