Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council gave its backing to the plan at its meeting last night, after hearing John K. Lally '49 disclose that a majority of the 302 answers to its parking poll were favorable. As formulated by Lally, the plan calls for a lot at Soldiers Field at a monthly rate of between three and four dollars per person...
...Santiago last week, the furnishings of the Soviet Embassy were sold at auction. Prices were disappointing. A living-room set was knocked down for 6,000 pesos ($120 at the free market rate) to the same furniture shop that sold it to the Russians when they moved in a little over a year ago. A samovar brought 500 pesos; newspapers noted that under the longer Spanish name (urna rusa para agua caliente) samovars could be bought anywhere in Santiago. A leftist politician with an ideological itch bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps...
Each week, voluntary campus listeners rate the comics as "Highly Acceptable," "Acceptable," "Barely Acceptable," or "Offensive." In last week's first tabulation, nobody was labeled offensive, 14 of the 16 shows squeaked by, and only one-Jimmy Durante-was "Highly Acceptable." Hope was alone in the "Barely Acceptable" class. The pollsters announced that they will keep on listening, will award a prize RAP at the season's end to the comedian with the worst record...
Producer Darryl Zanuck made Agreement his "personal production" (i.e., his bid for the 1947 Academy Award) and gave it everything-notably Moss Hart, who has written a first-rate scenario, and Elia Kazan, who has richly fulfilled his high directorial promise of Boomerang! Kazan's sure hand has bottled John Garfield's carbonated talents into a clear, constrained performance as the hero's Jewish friend; he has massaged Gregory Peck's normally musclebound manner into a good piece of acting as the journalist hero; and he has guided Dorothy McGuire's considerable talents through...
...experts rate Brown a two touchdown favorite, but the Bruins will come to Harvard Stadium anticipating a rugged game today. Coach Rip Engle is pointing for his first victory over a Harvard team since taking over the reins as head football coach at Brown, and the Bruins are keyed for this tilt, so the Crimson may be black and blue and BROWN-ed into this afternoon...