Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attention is drawn "to the alarming indications of industrial unrest everywhere apparent." Emphasis is laid on the unemployment problem and its disruptive effect on the trades unions, the " safeguards of industrial peace." It is estimated that if unemployment continues at its present rate the unions will be bankrupt within a year...
...fall out with Mr. Poincaré," said Mr. Lloyd George, " but it was very difficult. Bonar Law found it quite impossible to work with him. But at any rate the two countries were able to work together, and I regret that there should be at this moment any break. It is a misfortune that speeches should be delivered which have the effect of widening the breach instead of bringing us together...
...that takes its information like its breakfast cereal, on the run, and, if possible, predigested - another century may find, perhaps, the whole scope of human knowledge boiled down and salted away in one magnificent, laconic Outline of Outlines, supplanting colleges and five-foot shelves alike. At any rate, here is the first volume of The Outline of Literature - 294 pages covering the rise and progress of human letters from the first books in the world to the age of Spenser. The corpse has been neatly dissected; every large muscle stands...
...judge " is the novel means which the Swedish Riksdag, with the help of inventors, has adopted to curb reckless auto-mobiling. Experiments are being conducted with a new recording speedometer which is to indicate not only the number of miles a car has run, but also the rate of speed during any part of the trip. Despite the fact that no recording speedometer has been perfected, the new law makes it compulsory for every car to carry one. This automatic evidence will both acquit the innocent and convict the guilty...
...Sometimes I think," Mr. Tilden added, "that you've all forgotten how to laugh in New York!" Perhaps we only snicker and snigger. Who knows? At any rate, whatever may be our pet noise which denotes amusement, we shall probably bring it forth when we encounter Mr. Tilden's Mr. Podd, unless, perhaps, we are members of "the lunatic fringe...