Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of purification and study. At the temple gateway stood Chief Priest Nissei Nakakita, asking the novices for six times last year's entrance fee. For three months of contemplation and 700 duckings in the ice-cold waters of the temple pump, 58 novices paid the inflated rate. Outside "the door that is not opened" devoted followers waited eagerly for their cries as freezing water coursed down their naked bodies...
Last week a picture suspiciously like their faked shot turned up in a full-page layout that replaced the editorial page in most of the Hearst papers. Cried its caption, in a single horrified breath: "Throughout the nation, this scene is being reenacted on a scale increasing at a rate that has brought a rising tide of demand for a law to end promiscuous drinking by women." Brayed a banner headline: AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-THE FEMALE BARFLY. As if to show the world-and his editors-that there was life in the old boy yet, aged (84), ailing William...
After a year of life, Pundit-Publisher David Lawrence's weekly World Report was still losing money. The rate, said office gossip, was $10,000 a week. Last week Lawrence merged the magazine with his weekly U.S. News. Lloyd Lehrbas, executive editor of World Report and onetime roving correspondent with the A.P., resigned. As many as possible of his 50 Report staffers, said Lawrence, would be absorbed by the merged newsmagazine...
...Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate of growth, membership would exceed 30,000,000 in three years...
...wasted. One year, after a few cannonballs had been dropped from the windows on to tutors' heads, the whole Sophomore class was suspended and some guilty rioters were sent to Concord to be tried. Nothing came of the proceedings, but the momentous of the War had at any rate proved that they were not yet obsolete. The Arsenal was soon destroyed and Harvard became its peaceful, present self...