Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity lettermen may have to lead the cheers again if student interest continues to decline at the present rate." Spear warned, adding that "only six cheerleaders were needed for this fall...
...clock: Reading Test. A'est to determine rate of speed and comprehension in reading. Required of all new students. A--M in New Lecture Hall; N--Z in Emerson...
...hours, Gandhi had announced that he would not eat until "sanity returned to Calcutta." (Aside he said: "As usual I shall permit myself to add salt and soda bicarbonate to the water I may wish to drink during the fast.") Anxious Calcuttans read about the Mahatma's pulse rate, his blood pressure (both diastolic and systolic) and the acetone and albumen in his urine; they stopped rioting...
After only two weeks' deliberation, the Interstate Commerce Commission last week granted the Pullman Co. an increase in berth rate's (TIME, Sept. 8), from 1% to 48.9%, depending on the type of sleeping service and distance traveled. The boosts will amount to about $13 million a year. The company had claimed it needed them to offset increasing costs and decreasing traffic...
...collection of engaging and often touching chronicles of crime in an age (1660-1800) when a petty theft could send an Englishman to the gallows. Editor de la Torre's scholarship is graced with gusto that sometimes falls into archness, but her selections are almost all first-rate. Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift are among the old pamphleteers and balladeers represented; later hands include George Borrow and the Edinburgh lawyer, William Roughead, whom many connoisseurs consider the dean of crime writers. Neither police nor detectives in the modern sense existed in the 18th Century. Parish constables were amateurs serving...