Word: rated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ordering the Department of Agriculture to experiment with making cheap nitrate fertilizers there, for sale at cost to farmers. ¶ Rejected by 39 votes to 29 the renomination of John Jacob Esch of Wisconsin to the Interstate Commerce Commission, after hot intersectional debate on his voting in coal-rate cases...
Furious was the rate of trading all last week on the New York Stock Exchange. Many a trader had been bearish, gambling on the probabilities that prices would fall. Of this, shrewd men laden with money were fully aware. They bought stocks and in such quantities that the bears could not supply. Shares of the Radio Corporation of America were particularly and peculiarly in demand. One Michael J. Meehan, Manhattan broker, bought and sold them for Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago and the Fisher brothers of Detroit, who managed a sort of corner in R.C.A. stock. Its price, consequently, rose...
...grinned the Mayor. He said President Coolidge was "a peach;" Postmaster General New, "all to the good;" Attorney General Sargent, "pretty hard-boiled;" Secretary Mellon, "one of the most delightful personalities I ever met. I can see why people who know him like Mr. Mellon. I liked him first rate...
...dogs could be taught to discriminate between a metronome beating 68 beats per minute to one having a rate of 200. Food appeared with the 200 rate, nothing happened at 68. After the dog had been conditioned the metronome was placed near him and started at 200. Immediately saliva dripped into the little tube connected with his salivary gland. The metronome slowed to 68. The dog was no longer interested. Two hundred again and the flow of saliva recommenced...
...suggestion of Heywood Broun offers at least an intelligent solution, if not a panacea for tennis ills. To rate players as professional upon a basis of skill would do away with the problem of compensation, and the rank would be in the nature of a healthful prize; Helen Wills could then meet Lenglen on a salary basis with no questions asked; and young Doeg could resume his studies when his services were no longer needed in defense of America's athletic reputation...