Word: rates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Alumnus Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, heard speeches by Pundit Walter Lippmann, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Wellesley's Mildred McAfee Horton, Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone. After Sir Richard's plea for the sort of education that would foster "a feeling for the first-rate" and "a quest for the good," visiting educators wrangled politely about the best...
...summer session will last from June 28 to August 21, and will offer courses in all the usual academic categories. Credit will be given by the College at the same rate as in the regular fall and spring terms, with the standard study program reduced from four to two half-courses...
Said Feller last week: "I won the first two games without having my best stuff. That may be a good omen." But the Indians have only one other first-rate pitcher, eager Bob ("Squeeze") Lemon. Boudreau's pitching prescription for the season: "Feller and Lemon, two days of rain, and then Feller and Lemon again...
Despite its title, Inside U.S.A. gives little sense of satirizing the American scene, or of really exploring the U.S. with Gunther and camera. It is simply a revue which-in the program, at any rate-is attentive to geography. Where associations are virtually unavoidable-as of New Orleans with the Mardi Gras, New Mexico with the Indians, or Chicago with crime-they have not been avoided. Otherwise the actual locale is of little value or even validity: a county fair labeled Wisconsin, for example, smacks a lot more of Oklahoma...
...Millionaires. France's new free currency rate (305 francs to the dollar) made traveling low-priced. Knickknacks-handbags, scarves, blouses and lingerie-were cheaper than in the U.S. And in Paris, as one tripper sighed ecstatically: "There seems to be an abundance of almost everything"-even if some things sold at inflationary prices. For night life, there were grubby clubs on Montmartre, dancers at the Bal Tabarin and undressed showgirls at the Folies-Berg...