Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth magnitude, and is located 90 degrees away from the sun and minus 51 degrees in declination. Although at present it may be observed only in the southern hemisphere and as far north as the Georgia-Florida boundary line, it is moving steadily northward at the rate of approximately one degree...
...price of board at the University Dining Halls has fluctuated considerably in recent years, being this year and last year at the lowest rate in ten years, being this year and last year at the lowest rate in ten years, namely, an average of about eight dollars and a half for twenty-one meals. Any surplus resulting from the Dining Hall operation prior to 1932-33 was set aside for equipment replacements and renewals and to cover deficits which might occur in the future. In 1933 about four-fifths, and in 1934 the whole of the surplus was used...
Since then the rate has again been rising. In 1933 nine officers and 48 men killed themselves, Surgeon General Robert Urie Patterson reported last week. Small though their ratio was to the 136,491 men in the Army, these self-inflicted deaths lifted the suicide rate more than half way to the high mark which apparently presages...
...sure, a source of satisfaction for you to know that each year my principal has dwindled and my expenses, gifts and use of money are increasing. Last year I think we dipped into the principal to pay $200,000 worth of commitments and obligations of every kind. At the rate at which I am going, if I live five years, I shall probably be pretty near where I started...
...high of $15,000,000. During the first ten months, said President Gustavus Franklin Swift, U. S. meat-eaters had consumed nearly three pounds more meat and lard than the year before. The forced marketing of drought-stricken animals had led the company at times to operate "at a rate far beyond what it had always regarded as peak capacity...