Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That put us on the spot. Maybe people think we like these games; at any rate, they must wonder at our constant interest in them. On this occasion we are asked to bring to fame the Freshman whose lovely, drooping eyelids carried his team to a 3 to 1 victory over the unhappy Sirens. We think it indecent...
...Earth is so old that if its story were imagined as a 500-page book, recorded history would fit easily into the last word, the Christian era into the last letter. How is this known? The rate at which radioactive substances decay can be experimentally determined, and hence the age of radioactive rock can be told by the amount of decay observed. In Canada there are rocks that reveal an age of 1,230,000,000 years. Yet Earth could not be more than two or three times that old, because otherwise all the radium would have decayed to lead...
...better year than last. With sterling cheap, tourist traffic was up 20,000 for the season, excluding the heavy week-end trade from normally stay-at-home gold-bloc countries like France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland. Visiting U. S. tourists remained twice as long as in previous years. Despite rate reductions to accommodate dollar travelers, the Savoy in London took in 35% more from room rent than...
...waves of poetry and war have washed up much flotsam and some rare finds on literature's beach. A poet and a War veteran, Richard Aldington is neither trash nor treasure but an excellent example of a soundly second-rate writer. A poet by trade, Author Aldington has lately turned to satirical novels whose unenlightened realism makes good reading for those who like their humdrum with a seasoning of malice. Since English Author Aldington puts only his own countrymen in his pillory portraits, U. S. readers can gaze on them with a certain equanimity. Latest Aldington exhibit...
...avail, however, for on Saturday night a large limousine came sailing down Dunster Street, at a high rate of speed, failed to stop before the gate, and carried away two of the posts in making its triumphal entry. A tow car had to be called to take away the wreck...