Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, to assume that the shifts really indicate receding velocity forces one to adopt a very curious model of the universe. "The model is closed and very small-a large fraction can be observed with existing telescopes-and is packed with matter to the very threshold of perception-. The rate of expansion has been slowing down so that the past time scale is remarkably limited. In short, the necessary adjustments and compensations suggest that the model may be a forced interpretation of the data." In plainer language, this meant that Astronomer Hubble is now willing to abandon the expanding universe...
...University. Other bureaus have been dragged into court by publishers for mimeographing and selling digests of copyrighted textbooks. The small, hustling Parker-Cramer bureau sorely tries the University's patience by advertising a Pay As You Pass system that guarantees a grade of D, charges a sliding scale rate thereafter. And there has been a growing undercurrent of tales about students who have had themes, course papers, and even theses for honors ready-written at tutoring bureaus...
...Buffalo National Park one day last week Assistant Game Warden Samuel Purshell raised his rifle, aimed, fired. At rundown 60 buffalo lay dead. Next day, as eleven herd riders drove more shaggy victims into the huge enclosure where he worked. Warden Purshell repeated his butchery. Progressing at the rate of 60 animals per day, his goal was 1,500 dead buffalo...
...many a disillusioned automobile buyer has learned by now, the 6% interest rate on instalment purchases has no relation whatever to the actual interest cost. It is simply an advertising slogan. To the unpaid balance on a car is added the cost of insurance, the total being multiplied by .06 to find the premium paid for the privilege of buying on the instalment plan. Since the debt is paid off in regular instalments, the borrower has the use of only about one-half of the original loan if the monthly debit balances are averaged. Thus the true interest cost...
...review will contain articles concerning the social sciences, book reviews, editorials, and letters, written largely by undergraduates, and at least one faculty article a month, the editors stated. Between six and eight issues will be published during the academic year, and the subscription rate was tentatively...