Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today other second-rate Powers still remain what they were then. But in 13 swift years the once obscure Italian editor has carried his once negligible country up & up to the ultimate fulcrum on which Europe's future turns. This may be II Duce's unlucky 13th year, but with the hammer blows of 52 nations ringing out in an anvil chorus of sanctions last week, it was significant to the point of paradox that not Italy but Ethiopia was still being called "the underdog...
...material of radiation? Sir Arthur Eddington believes an internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must be 40,000,000° or 50,000,000°, adding that a pinhead heated to this point would radiate energy at the rate of three quadrillion horsepower, knock down fortresses by sheer pressure of radiation (TIME, Nov. 19). Last week a Harvard physicist named T. E. Sterne offered the electrochemists calculations boosting the inside temperatures of ordinary stars (the sun is an ordinary star...
...Rockefeller: But isn't it true, Dr. Gasser, that increase is a rate based upon, shall we say, increase in population-I am. now referring to cancer-and increase in longevity? Dr. Gasser: But that increase is due in a large measure to the great strides that have been made in pathology, which is represented in the greater preservation of life...
...papa!" Somewhat startled at this bland impeachment, the gentleman hurried on, only to hear the challenging greeting flung at the student behind him. Still smiling, the child indicted each Dunsterman in turn with the same words until all had passed and were hurrying across the street, apparently at a rate sufficient to keep their past from, catching up with them. Safe on the other side, they turned to hear the young woman, with conviction that warmed their hearts, explain to the little one, "No, no, dear, those men aren't papa." Apparently some awful mistake had been made. Anyhow...
...were used as a dormitory, such as Hollis or Stoughton, in which the stairs and hallaways would be frequented by students singly or in pairs. At the rush hours about eleven, twelve, and one o'clock Harvard Hall literally bulges with scores of students flowing at a maddeningly leisurely rate along the hall on the second stairway, and spilling out of the lone doorway into the Yard...