Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present rate of U. S. coal consumption of 586,000,000 metric tons a year is maintained the coal resources of the United States will last this country another 6,033 years. (A metric ton weighs 2,204,662 pounds...
...This is not so simple when it is remembered that the mark stands at roughly 80,000 to the dollar and the crown at about 70,000. Accordingly it takes only $12.72 to become a millionaire in German marks and $14.12 in Austrian crowns. (Figures according to the current rate of exchange...
...rate, Mr. Clarence Arthur Perry, of the National Committee for Better Films, Russell Sage Foundation, now stands ready to give you the "lowdown" on just how the movies affect your growing family? what they like and dislike on the silver screen, what effect, if any, it has on their adolescent minds, their own pet actors and actresses?statistics 'n all." In fact about the only thing he hasn't done to the unsuspecting high school pupils of 76 American cities and large towns is to lay them...
Assuredly the American college--particularly the college in the East--is under fire. As if the opinion of men like Mr. Vanderlip were not enough, we have been told even by alumni, inspired by "youth movements" and educational nostalgia, that Harvard has become a third-rate institution when compared with the live, enthusiastic young colleges of the West...
...five or ten best performances they ever saw-now that most people are beginning to prefer to stay at home with the electric fan and a highball rather than perspire before the most thrilling of theatrical performances-now, in fact that summer is icumen in and the cut-rate ticket agencies are ready to cry " Cuckoo! " at their more expensive brethren-it is not out of order to consider some aspects of the season now moribund. The outstanding fact would seem to be, at first sight, the unquestionable success of an English dramatist, William Shakespeare, upon the American stage...