Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking from years of experience, Cox gave the following advice in the interests of skiing safety: "The average skier should get his turns down past, and be able to run under control. Then it is safe to run a little beyond his ordinary rate in order to progress. But in general, speed is like going to a party and getting drunk. Skiing is just as much fun in moderation as it is in excess...
...fiscal 1938 birth rate: 18 per 1,000: the death rate...
...consolidating rural schools, enlarging their classes to 25 or 30 pupils, reducing interest charges on school building by more rapid debt reduction, and chiefly by eliminating some 8,000 teaching jobs as elementary school enrollments decline because of the falling birth rate...
...high British literacy rate, the voracious British reading habit, the density of the British population and the narrow British boundaries make possible the unique British journalistic institution of national newspapers, written in London, circulated to the ends of the Isles. These papers-largely copied after the cheapest U. S. models, or British copies of them- enjoy whopping circulations, and in the past two decades have made four men lords of the press in money and influence as well as title...
...National Guard, now a first-rate fighting force, should not be employed for police duty in labor disputes. This restriction would speed the recruiting of union members and the army needs skilled mechanics, trained workmen...