Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rates now in effect are for the calendar years 1937, 1938, and 1939. The 1½% rate is not effective until January 1, 1940. Had this article appeared in a later issue it might have been construed correctly...
...Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...
...Post Office was congratulating itself on having thus got some of its air mail subsidy bait back, news came from London that in June Imperial Airways expects to start flying mail over the Atlantic to Canada for 12? a half-ounce. This would be less than half the rate the U. S. had figured on if and when some U. S. airline decides to start flying the Atlantic. Only way to meet such a British rate would be to pay carriers the difference in outright subsidy, such as Imperial now enjoys...
...changes in these genes that evolution of different types of organisms takes place. But last week Dr. Millislav Demerec of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Genetics announced his opinion- based on careful research-that chromosomes contain one gene, which, by affecting all the genes, speeds up the rate of evolutionary change. It may be due to this single "pacemaker" gene that the evolution of higher organisms has required only hundreds of millions of years instead of billions, as it might have if organic changes had to wait on time and chance for changes in thousands of genes...
...from a tench and a pike. Presto! He is a hawk, learning bravery. He becomes a snake, learning 20th-century theories of evolution, a badger, learning about adaptation, an owl, learning how trees and stones talk (so slowly that they could be heard only if time passed at the rate of 30 years per minute...