Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rate Used in Research...
...evening of amusement there is no telling what will happen. This mysterious note which found its way to the Crime is more or less self-explanatory. Whether or not the river was actually swum on that cold Friday night is a question left for future researchers. At any rate, there were signs of cracked ice along the partially frozen Charles Saturday morning...
...private and intimate incident. Especially voluble were mothers including one whose small son had brought the pictures into her bridge club meeting, asked for an explanation. But an equal number of citizens, including physicians, told him how interesting they had found the pictures, congratulated him warmly on a first-rate news beat. Editor Pooley remained convinced that he had made the right decision...
Almost alone of all the first-rate artists who have painted, drawn and graven the War is Kerr Eby, in that he actually served in the line. Tall, grey-haired and 46, he was born in Tokyo, son of a Methodist missionary. Four dollars a week as a lithographer helped put him through art school in Manhattan. He went to France with the A.E.F. camouflage service, was attached to innumerable artillery regiments, never rose above sergeant's rank...
...present are we a great school in the sense of producing animated thinkers. . . . An amazing devotion marks the master of St. Paul's. . . . There is much drive, complete attention to duties, but not enough long-range planning of a scholarly sort. ... In scholarly capacity, one might rate our faculty at about 75%; in willing laboriousness at 90%; in successfully awakening independent intellectual interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn...