Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better field of operation for the farm bloc than is the House. Whatever legislation the junior Senator from Kansas espouses is likely not only to have the firm support of the farmer, but to have a good chance of enactment provided the Presidential veto does not intervene. At any rate as leader of the Senate farm bloc, Mr. Capper has as much power to disturb the even temper of that body's procedure as Mr. Curtis, his colleague, the majority leader, has to carry out the Administration's policies...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...
...when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...
Copley--"The Sport of Kings", at 8.20: The chance to see a first rate comedy before it has gone to Broadway and become tarnished and threadbare...
...that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group of planets) is moving toward the constellation of the Dragon at a rate of 120 miles a second. The significance of the ether-drift calculations in brief is: The man who made them, Dr. Dayton C. Miller of the Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland), President of the American Physical Society, participated in the original ether-drift experiments of Professors Michelson and Morley...