Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Battles gained more than 200 yards running, and Tackle Turk Edwards broke open the hitherto impregnable Giant line. The Redskins won 49-to-14. They went jauntily back to Washington, and as they rehearsed for the wind-up with the fearsome Bears, railroads offered jubilant Washington fans a special rate of $23.20 for the round-trip to Chicago. The Bears were 10-to-7 favorites. They had lost only one game (out of eleven) all season, the Redskins had lost three. Chicagoans predicted heavyweight Wrestling Champion Bronko Nagurski would rip the Redskin line and Bernie Masterson would take care...
...practical aspect of Harvard's theatrical burden. Because the practical dramatic training it offers is extra-curricular in nature, the Club has met with little of the hostility accorded by University Hall to the "Workshop." It has produced consistently creditable plays despite many great obstacles, and if its present rate of growth continues, the Club bids fair to revive Harvard's great dramatic tradition, and to restore the University to its former position as the foremost theatrical college in the country...
...story of the birth rate, says Dr. Thorndike, is "short but very bitter." The average number of children per family in good cities is 3.3, in poorer ones, 4.8. "Most of the rising generation is being brought up in the worst communities...
...good city read much, but much that they read is not good. While quality magazines have a large circulation in such a city, so do the confession magazines. Many radios also is a tip-top sign. "The good citizen may not be terribly moral or intellectual, but even third-rate reading and listening to the radio replaces cheap gossip, dirty stories and hanging around saloons...
...Office and is credited with saving all subsequent generations of mankind many steps by inventing the street mailbox as a convenient place for posting letters. As a novelist he saved no words, for he wrote with great facility, reeling off his ambling tales with a quiet relish, at the rate of 2,500 words a morning. But although he held the mirror rather too close to the placid mediocrity of British life, he had a genuine ability to tell a story and to tell it with a sharp, shrewd bite...