Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this rate, congressional funds would obviously not be available by Dec. 1, the deadline set by Secretary of State Marshall. But some Congressmen, alarmed by Communist riots in Italy and France, hoped to get the program under way quickly, anyway. They talked about tacking on an amendment permitting the Administration to borrow $100 million immediately from...
...much desperate hope for U.N.'s success bring forth such a schizoid mouse of futility? It was not the fault of the delegates-mostly hardworking, second-rate men who would have done no better had they been first-rate. U.N. could not stand above the nations because it was created by nations who wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years...
...move to control the middle class is a new Communist-dominated commission to fix taxes for townspeople. A citizen's rate of tax is in inverse ratio to his rate of cooperation...
...across air passages from tissues which are normally cooler than they are. Therefore the cells radiate heat waves across the air stream. Beck & Miles theorized that when pure air is passing through the nostrils, the cells give no signal; they are getting rid of their heat at the standard rate. But when an odorous vapor is present in the air stream it absorbs certain wavelengths of the heat which the cells are radiating. The cells can feel the change and the stimulus produces a sensation of smell...
...iron-clad Yale game rule burdens the coaching staffs in the key game of the year with the knowledge that they must play all the men who rate awards. "If the score had been 21 to 21," Dick Harlow said after the last Yale game, "I'm afraid a lot of kids wouldn't have gotten their letters." Injured men patently cannot play in a game, Yale or otherwise, and there have been cases in the past where a man got an early season broken leg instead...