Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House will open this morning at 9 o'clock for the first time in order to permit men who are unable to buy the case books required in their courses to borrow them at a moderate rate. Only a limited number of books are available and men desirous of obtaining copies should apply as early in the morning as possible...
...good. But what about the "forty days and forty nights" that the fountains of the deep were opened? What does that signify? The astronomers have shown that Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine months, nor years as the Bible has it. At that rate, the celebrated rain-storm of Noah's time lasted about three days and the Ark might well have been built right here in Boston. But movements in the earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never...
...possible financial solutions, a states' guarantee of finances which might; lead to governmental control, operation, or even ownership. That the railroads could be on a by adopting such a plan is dubious. The short New England roads unfavorably situated, cannot make a profit alone when operated under a rate-making schedule which for the larger and stronger roads in the Eastern territory. If they were to charge enough to yield the statutory rate of return upon property value, the rates would be so high comparatively that many industries would be driven from New England and the general situation would become...
...example a certificate for 1,000,000 rubles, but labels it 100 rubles; and all official documents, including the weekly accounts of the national bank, are based upon the latter figure. Unfortunately the people still refer to the new bills as worth 1,000,000 rubles because they rate on a par with old bills of that denomination. But the authorities hope that when the old bills are called in, the populace will adopt the face value as the current rating. By this ingenious expedient the internal debt will be reduced ten thousand-fold...
...money" some sage remarked, and so, if one lives more actively, he must spend more freely. Then, too, time is limited, and with lectures worth only sixty cents why not cut more often and regain time? But in the end this proceeding more than equals the savings from cut rate fees, recalling the story of the man who threw his return trip ticket out the window just to "pull something over on the railway...