Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Faye is enchanting as Belle Fawcett, a sort of nineteenth century chorus girl. Mr. Power is surprisingly modern and very real as a combination politician and saloon-keeper, and Mr. Ameche, in a simpler part, is satisfactory. "In Old Chicago" is well acted, masterfully directed, and provides first-rate entertainment...
...just as pointless to have a navy insufficient for our needs as to have defective or antiquated fire equipment or inadequate police departments in every city or community." Admitting that a naval race would raise the rate on our naval "insurance," Captain Keppler said that the increase is only relative. He pointed out that naval expenditures are only a very small fraction of the national budget...
Most cinemagoers would probably say, if asked, that every U. S. motion picture has to be passed by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Hollywood knows better. Since 1919 the industry has paid almost $1,000,000, at the set reviewing-charge rate of $6.25 a reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been...
...salesman, graduate of an elementary school, stumbles along at the rate of 156 words a minute, never reads books or magazines. Miss A, a college graduate and school administrator, can lap up 600 words a minute, reads nine magazines regularly, keeps two library cards busy...
With less build-up and ballyhoo than attends the opening of a third-rate motion picture, there started at the beginning of the term a series of twelve lectures of vital interest to all who appreciate the personal and social blessings of good health. Organized by Dr. Charles F. McKhann, the free, public addresses held at the Medical School every Sunday afternoon have already benefitted hundreds of men and women who weekly pack the School's largest amphitheatre, and have enlightened thousands of others through the medium of the daily press...