Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also been mentioned, and outstanding achievement is notoriously no guarantee of jury actions, as witness the fact that Thomas Hardy, generally conceded the greatest living English man of letters, has yet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention Conrad, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, Wells, while second-rate Spittelers, Heyses and unknown Scandinavians are deified. Nevertheless, should he receive the medicine prize, Dr. Banting will be in distinguished company. It has been awarded 16 times since the year 1901. In 1906 and 1908 it was divided between two men, so that 18 medical scientists in all have been...
...Paris during the same period there were 1,048 divorces and 8,000 marriages, or a ratio of one to eight. The capital's divorce rate is the highest in the country, Lyons coming second...
...Prominent in the Rotary Club of Literary New York Alexander Woollcott has added a species of small tippet to his facial equipment. What does one call such a beard when it rests on the under reaches of the lower lip? At any rate, the dramatic critic of The New York Herald, after illness, a trip abroad and a sojourn in Vermont, has acquired a new beard with which to astonish early first night audiences in New York City...
...annual quota. This results in a great rush each year during the months from July to November, inclusive-and especially at the beginning of these months. During July, 57,495 immigrants came to this country, and about half the 41 nations listed filled their maximum monthly quotas. At this rate the annual quota for all nations will be filled in six months-or rather, as will probably happen, a large number of nations will fill their quotas in five months, and the small remainder will go on more slowly, gradually filling their allotments...
...Tennessee and Kentucky are least affected. But the length of time which it will take the South to repair its losses is indicated by an increase of Negro population of only 1.9% from 1910 to 1920. The condition is further aggravated by the steady fall of the Negro birth rate. Due almost totally to this cause, the increase of Negro population throughout the country declined from...