Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sportsman. Big, powerful, restless, Doyle is first of all a man of action. He is proficient at most games. Brilliant cricketer, masterly billiard player, fisherman, footballer, horseman, skier, first-rate boxer (he was asked to referee the Johnson-Jeffries fight), golfer - he has at least dabbled in everything...
...late Jay Gould . . . succeeded in getting together and holding money . . . at the rate of $2,500,000 annually, which amounts to $285 an hour. His children and their children . . . are disbursing it nine times as fast as he made...
...each. This is a reduction of only 97,000 from the estimate by the same source for Sept. 16. The Department was almost equally reassuring as to the condition of the crop, which as of Oct. 1 it placed at 53.5% of normal, compared with a rating of 55.4% a fortnight earlier. Very evidently, at any rate, this year's crop will considerably exceed that of 1923, which was only 10,139,671 bales...
Last night one third of the school had subscribed to the "Who's Who", and not a single man spoken to refused to take a volume. At this rate the committee expects to have the subscription 100 per cent complete by Friday night. Many men have expressed their desire to help produce the publication and all subscribers have been promised that the book will be printed before Christmas...
Chang was also active in promoting Japanese friendship. Whether there was any connection or not between the insidious diplomacy of the Manchurian War Lord and 5,000 Japanese in Tokyo was undeterminable. At any rate, a meeting was held in Shibu Park, Tokyo, and was attended by Peers and Representatives. Resolutions demanding the active intervention of Japan in China on the side of Chang were adopted...