Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate, a few days later, Mr. Dial rose in the Senate to ask that some corrections be made in his speech...
...hotel. At this point, enthusiastic journalists, bereft of all reason, had multiplied his fortune, exaggerated his power, invented many things. They could not decide whether the mining magnate of South America had taken seven or nine rooms at his hotel, half a floor or a whole floor- at any rate he stayed at a hotel...
...beams, traveling around the rectangle in both directions, moved at the same rate, the waves would come into the interferometer simultaneously; there would be no interference, hence no dark lines and light fringes on the receiving surface. If the beam going in one direction traveled faster than the beam going in the opposite direction, their waves would arrive at different times; there would be interference, hence black lines and light fringes visible in the instrument. With this second result, it would be apparent that something impeded the light going in one direction-the movement of the earth (as the Einstein...
...divided among other Methodist churches. "From first to last," explained the Secretary-Treasurer, "the erection of this building has been carried on according to strict business principles. It was financed by a mortgage, not by small bonds sold to church members. It pays taxes at the same rate as regular commercial buildings. It has been rented not through any appeal to the loyalty of church members but be cause it offered good offices in a favorable location. The largest number of tenants are lawyers...
...basket, sent it to the City Editor, who handed it to a Bright Young Reporter. To Stamford, Conn., hastened the B. Y. R. His nostrils quivered also. Headmaster Slack was the opossum. Next day, in the great daily, appeared a front-page headline: "PREP SCHOOL CUTS RATE FOR STAR ATHLETES." Headmaster Slack was out on a limb...