Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There's no doubt that Princeton is "plenty good." Any team that can build up a string of 13 consecutive victories in two years of major competition has the right to rate itself up at the top of the ladder, and the Tiger's record these past two seasons has shown that there is an abundance of hard-driving backs, in fact several complete backfields of 'em, and a heavy, potent line...
...House men, admission cards to the courtyard may be secured at the library, while tickets are available from members of the House committee or at the door, at the rate of $2 for a couple, and $1.25 stage...
...Gertrude Slaughter's "Shelley and the NRA" is certainly untainted with the scientific attitude. Shelley, as has often been pointed out, believed apparently in the wholesale regeneration of the race by a miracle. Mrs. Slaughter does not quite persuade us that the NRA is a miracle--or at any rate that kind of miracle...
...clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth, or of the times, or just plain accident...
...showing is so many billboards in a city area. The buyer may buy a showing in one community or 17,000 showings in 17,000 communities; or one-half or one-quarter showings. In every case the rate is the same-$7.80 per month for each regular billboard, $35 per month for each illuminated. Before the Depression the volume of outdoor advertising in the U. S. ran about $75,000,000 annually. This year it will foot up to some $38,000,000, of which $30,000,000 is national advertising. There are still over 200,000 billboards (cost...