Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Library officials have known about the Lamont project for several years, Metcalf added. Procurement of books for the edifice has been going on for some time, he said, in addition to the constant expansion of Widener Library at the average rate of 105,000 volumes a year since the first World...
Although undergraduate waiters pay the regular basic board rate of $11.50 a week, they are occasionally deprived of full meals when a certain course is not ready by their required meal time...
Conductor Reiner, 59, a grown-up wonder boy who conducted his first orchestra at twelve, would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
...correct that defect. In a way, the public is better informed than it was 25 years ago, and TIME has had a hand in that improvement. But in a deeper sense, the public is not better informed than a generation ago. The techniques of communication are progressing at a rate slower than the growth of what "the intelligent man" needs to know...
...Berke, captain of the '51 swimming team, has more than equalled Smith's performance. Key man on a well knit team, Berke came to the College a first rate backstroker...