Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremonial. One has the feeling as though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...
...Freshman, wrestling fans were forecasting for him a splendid season, but he has had his share of disabilities and is still only a Sophomore. Al Richter, whom he has replaced in the 135-pound class, lost every encounter except Brown and M.I.T. Richter is conscientious and is a first-rate grappler. Undoubtedly he will become one of Pat Johnson's chief assets soon...
Probably Yardlings will find the most trouble in fixing a room rate. By all means they should decide beforehand exactly how much they can pay, and those who can afford high-priced rooms should resolve to set a high limit out of fairness to the men able to afford only the lowest-priced. Freshmen who must ask for the cheapest accommodations ought not to feel discouraged, as House Masters will take their finances into consideration. Once an applicant commits himself on a price limit, he is bound, unless he can provide an extraordinary excuse, to pay the same rate...
...Actress Young had been refused permission to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind for Myron Selznick's producer brother, David. Reason: Whoever plays Scarlett O'Hara will get higher billing. Wags said it was just as well, that at the rate Gone With the Wind was progressing Actress Young would be old and grey before the cameras started turning...
...this month showed few that were definitely bad, it also had few that addicts could call first-rate. In the category of acceptable they put items like Laurence Dwight Smith's Death Is Thy Neighbor, Nard Jones's The Case of the Hanging Lady, George Bagby's Murder on the Nose, G. D. H. & Margaret Cole's The Missing Aunt, Whitman Chambers' Dog Eat Dog, Carolyn Wells's The Missing Link, William Gore's The Mystery of the Painted Nude, Ellery Queen's The Devil...