Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year mesh of cumbrous grabbag legislation, alternately burned by droughts* and swamped by bounteous Nature's overproduction, still he comes up with a dogged smile, pushes his greying cowlick out of his eyes, and tackles the irresistible forces with new enthusiasm. But still U. S. farmers rate him low on all popularity polls...
...Cropping up in several places were accounts of Britain's regenerated Air Force. In a series of articles for the Chicago Tribune, Reporter Wayne Thomis estimated Britain's present first-line warplanes at 2,000. He said that 500 to 600 were being delivered monthly, a rate also said to approach German production. Britain is now patrolled, Mr. Thomis reported, by 700 single-seater fighting planes, but the British are still sadly lacking in fast, long-range bombers. Even more optimistic was a special dispatch printed in the American Machinist, which places Britain's present monthly output...
...drier than Earth, has a much thinner atmosphere. Adams and Dunham of Mt. Wilson have shown that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1% of the Earth's. Yet among different types of animal life on Earth there are enormous differences in the rate of oxygen intake, and it may be that animals on Mars have adapted themselves to the rare atmosphere by an ultra-slow rate of oxygen consumption. Such animals might be intelligent but they would also be sluggish-probably too sluggish to make plans for invading the Earth...
While art shows to East and West of it volleyed and thundered in and around both World's Fairs, Chicago's Art Institute last week rummaged around and quietly put on nine first-rate shows of its own. The best show: 46 of its 329 lithographs by the late great French Artist Odilon Redon. The Art Institute's collection of Redon prints, purchased from the artist's widow when Redon prices were low, is the world's best: it includes all of the first impressions...
...Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...