Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them requires a great deal of his attention. It is often disastrous to carry on social intercourse in traffic, for as a general rule conversation is distracting, although on a long fatiguing drive some pleasant music can be relaxing. Radio ads have a terrible effect, on me at any rate...
...Linaker and Ricardo Cortez do their best to make a second rate murder picture. "the Mystery of Dr. Harrigan," take a mildly gruesome and gently thrilling tenor. One cannot, however, work up much of a lather over this murder of an unpopular M.D. in a private hospital...
...Author, like many a first-rate English writer, is Irish. Born in Dublin (1899), she was taken to England when she was 7, but has always spent her summers in Ireland, and still keeps up Bowen's Court, her family's 18th Century country house. Because of her mother's early death and her father's remarriage, Elizabeth Bowen left home at 19, lived with relations or hand-to-mouth in European hotels and boardinghouses. When she was 23 she married one Alan Cameron, went to live outside Oxford, and settled down to write...
British armament shares were booming at such a rate last week that Labor's irate, pacifist London Daily Herald was able to cite 13 leading issues which have risen an average of 207% since His Majesty's Government started the boom with their $1,500,000,000 program of new armaments (TIME, Nov. 11). Urged to dampen this speculative rise by promising that His Majesty's Government will by law curtail armorers' profits, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said: "Great as the power of government is, I am afraid we can't control the speculator...
...record started more than a year ago when, toward the close of a successful season, the team lost to Duquesne by 5 points. Long Island then finished its season with seven straight victories, proceeded smoothly this season through a schedule that included, besides a number of second-rate opponents, such able teams as Duquesne, Catholic University and Springfield. The L. I. U. basketball squad consists of eight men, most of whom have played together for three years. None has a scholarship. The coach, who also teaches accounting, is a Trenton, N. J. War veteran named Claire...