Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high of 487,000 pieces on Sept...
...Grimsby, the fishing port at the mouth of the Humber River, as their main base. Shallow-draft fishing boats, motor launches, even paddle steamers were pressed into service. In the first two months of that war, for every two mines swept up, one trawler was lost. By 1918, the rate was 80 mines swept per ship lost...
...much safer. No kin to the older drugs, tongue-tripping hydroxy-ethylapocupreine is derived from quinine, is usually swallowed in gelatin capsules. Of 500 pneumonia patients treated at Pittsburgh's Mercy Hospital, said Chief Physician William Watt Graham MacLachlan, less than 23% died. Usual Pittsburgh pneumonia-case death rate: 45%. Before advising other physicians to lay in a winter's supply of hydroxyethylapocupreine, the cautious investigators, remembering the unqualified praise which greeted sulfanilamide, are waiting for further confirmation of the drug's efficacy...
...Stepping up per capita kilowatt-hour sales some 148% in twelve years, it has given seven rate reductions. In 1926 the average rate was 8.74? per kwh: today...
Meteors falling at the rate of 400 a minute for an hour and a half may be visible in the western sky some time between sunset and midnight...