Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, however, with the progress of Roosevelt recovery and the coincident rise in the birth rate, the squirrels have repeatedly threatened to overrun the Yard. Stringent measures have indeed been necessary to keep down the slate colored hordes, and to prevent the steady demolition of the foundations of such derelict edifices as Brooks House by the eroding action of countless razor-sharp molars...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a consistent, uncompromising radical who, if he were in the White House, would make the New Deal look reactionary; one of the best fighters in the Senate and a muckraking investigator of rare talent. He has been nominated to succeed himself when his term expires...
...past year. If the stockholders authorize the necessary increase in capitalization-which they will undoubtedly be delighted to do-the directors plan to place the stock on a $2.40 annual basis. As each stockholder will then have three shares instead of two, that will amount to boosting the present rate...
...underground part of life that is unseen, and the richness which, though visible, is not noticed." Plain readers may find the ground a little flat, the poetry a little uncertain of its feet, but they will give Author Johnson high marks for an ambitious effort. More cynical critics will rate Now in November as big talk, too precocious to be profound...
...land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never be a juvenile), but that would not necessarily mean it was a less worthy book. Even Cooper-addicts will admit that Author Stone has done a first-rate job. Her admirers will compare The Cold Journey favorably with Willa Gather's Shadow on the Rock...