Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absolute record of 469,225 m.p.h. The ship was undoubtedly stripped and "souped up" for the test. In combat with U. S.-built Curtiss fighters, which hit a top speed of around 330 m.p.h., Messerschmitts with their long, flat, square-tipped wings have been proved lacking in maneuverability and rate of climb. But Willy Messerschmitt remains an ace name in Naziland. It would be news indeed if he fled his country, as gossip in Europe last week said he had, placing him in The Netherlands...
...Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
...Yale News ascribes the poor showing of Saturday to the Price of the tickets: $3.85 for every seat in the Bowl. Calling for an H-Y-P conference to revise the price scale, the News is rooting for a double rate-$3.50 for seats between the goal lines, and $2.20 for the end zones, on the ground that "the days when crowds flocked to games at $3.85 a head are gone, never to return." In Cambridge, however, those days are only a little less alive than they were in the twenties, and there is no real reason why they should...
...thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot and Siegfried lines, were on its production list...
...slightly silly passion, a rare specialty with scholars, a cliché or nothing to the people at large. Greek is hard to learn (though not much harder than German) and U. S. education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology, not to Thucydides. In art the "primitive" has seemed more fruitful than the Classical...