Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become ridiculous within the course of a decade or two, for the reason that there will be no problems of overproduction. Even a bumper wheat crop, such as that of the present year, will no longer supply a surplus for export in 25 to 35 years at the present rate of population increase in this country Already per capita crop production is 5% less than in the five years before the War. Meantime, the need of Europe for imported grain will increase, unless her population growth comes to a standstill; while Canada Australia, Argentina and other grain producing countries, like...
Vilna. "There was the less complete solution of the controversy between Poland and Lithuania over the possession of Vilna, which at any rate stopped actual hostilities; and there was the much discussed settlement of the Silesian question between Poland and Germany, which, whatever may be said about some of its features, is in practice working smoothly and well...
Corfu. "Here was a case of a bitter quarrel between two nations caused by an occurrence of the most deplorable character, the murder of four Italian officers on Greek territory. It was the kind of case which in the past had often produced, if not actual war, at any rate prolonged embitterment of international relations. Yet in a very few weeks the matter was adjusted, partly by the League and partly by another international body, the Conference of Ambassadors...
...visitor from Europe cannot fail to be amazed at two features in the American college system: first, its extreme newness and tremendously rapid growth; and second, its accessibility, at any rate as compared with England, to the sons and daughters of the mass of the people...
...shadow will travel at the rate of 60 miles an hour...