Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage, of course, is the chief cause of this colossal mortality rate. Ten thousand men of Harvard seem to take far more than a passing interest in the bevy of intellectual beauties that make the administrative wheels turn...
Explained Reck: since tuition fees cover only half the cost of a student's education, every extra student means that the colleges must dig deeper into their endowment income to make up the difference. With expenses soaring and the interest rate slumping, the difference is getting wider & wider...
These closely related disorders are the basic cause of strokes, most heart attacks and Bright's disease; they are rapidly becoming the leading cause of death among pregnant women. Already they kill three times as many as cancer. At the present rate, half the children born today will die from these circulatory diseases-and many more will be disabled...
Inflation sent the advertising rate to $12,000 an inch ($1 U.S.). To make ends meet young Powell started a translation service for U.S. businessmen and correspondents, and a newsletter called Monthly Report. He also began updating Who's Who in China, which, just before the war, had earned his father some new enemies with a section on Who's Who among the Puppets...
Lining both sides of main arteries within a quarter-mile radius of the Kiosk, the meters will pay off at the rate of 12 minutes per penny, or a whole hour for a nickel. When the flag pops up in the glass meterhead at the end of an hour, the parker must either move to another meter or pay a $1 fine, with fines for subsequent offences depending upon what humor the judge...