Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rate, there are three posts of political significance to be filled and, like the wise old owl, Republicans are asking...
...Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope. Last week it was 123 degrees from the North Pole of the heavens, and 44 degrees to the right of the "first point of Aries" (the Greenwich Observatory of the celestial universe). But it is moving northward at the rate of 30 minutes (half a degree) a day, and to the east by 53 minutes a day. The magnitude of the comet was not announced...
...coworkers. He has the sort of personality that attracts men and women of talent. Just how many American millionaires each year offer him transportation to far ends of the earth so that they may be taken along on his delightful pilgrimages, is a matter for speculation. At any rate, the Galápagos trip was made under the auspices of Mr. Harrison Williams and his yacht Notna...
...citizen soldiery, kept her borders inviolate for centuries. In that country the young men serve a certain term in the army and take vast pride in doing so. They become splendid soldiers and are among the best shots in the world. Numerous manoeuvres keep them at a high rate of efficiency. Yet who can say that Switzerland is militaristic? In the recent war it is well known that the German Emperor long contemplated an invasion of France through Switzerland. It was in every way a better road of attack, for it would enable his army corps to enter the heart...
These interesting lacis, while appatent by unimportant, have a very definite purpose. To tell a man that the murder rate is increasing by so many per so and so means relatively nothing; but if it is possible to conjure up before his mind's eye a picture of all the people killed last year cluttering up the roadway from Boston to Lowell, he becomes genuinely disturbed. And if he is disturbed he may do something about...