Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responds with vigor, starting off proceedings with a flourish. Aside from his career on the Judiciary Committee and in spite of his long service, he is neither a Grade A Senator like Borah or Wagner or a Grade A Democrat like Robinson of Arkansas or Byrnes. Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a loyal, picturesque party politician of average intelligence, who sounds better than he really is. His term expires March...
Without any whys or wherefores the Census Bureau last week announced that fewer U. S. women are having babies, that more babies are dying their first year. The 1933 birth rate per 1,000 population was 16.4, lowest since 1915 when Federal registration began. The 1932 birth rate was 17.4 per 1,000 population...
...rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held for ransom for five and a half dreary months. To while away the time and keep track of the days, one of them kept a diary. Enthusiastically introduced by Peter Fleming (Brazilian Adventure}, Pirate Junk is a first-rate addition to what he calls "the literary photography of experience...
Important only in that it plots another point in the life-graph of a curly-headed little girl, Baby, Take a Bow "makes a third-rate farce out of the adventures of a reformed ex-convict (James Dunn), whose daughter (Shirley Temple) unwittingly helps him dispose of a stolen pearl necklace which has been planted in his apartment...
...such a dictionary was the Century (now out of print), which appeared in 1889-91 with six volumes of word histories. It has since been superseded by a two-volume edition (cost: $12). For title of best one-volume laymen's dictionary the U. S. has two first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (cost: $16) features new spellings, has had for its editor since 1914 the most famed U. S. lexicographer. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 70. But most U. S. citizens still settle their bets by ''looking it up in Webster...