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Word: rates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually the bride would be less than half the heroine she is today had it not been for the bridegroom. A second rate writer, he has made it his career to keep Heroine Marie van Houtte before a grateful public with such books as Meditation in the Trenches and The Women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Smuggler's Marriage | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Against death while traveling by rail on Britain's famed Royal Scot, Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the rate of one shilling per ?1.000 (approximately 25? per $5.000). Against death while flying on Imperial Airways Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the same rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Even Money | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...insurance against accidental death on the Twentieth Century costs 25? per $5.000 or about the same as on the Royal Scot. For the same New York-Chicago trip on American Airlines' new sleeper plane the rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Even Money | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly accumulating evidence that Tories are not only men of sense but often men of sensibility as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearty Misadventures | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

FOUR GENERATIONS?Naomi Jacob?Macmillan ($2.50). Anglo-Jewish family novel, earnest but not first-rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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