Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published a statement [TIME, Jan. 6] to the effect that divorces in Egypt were nearly half as frequent as marriages. From the enclosed official statistics (1941-45 marriage rate, 30.5 per thousand; divorce rate, 8.6 per thousand), you will find that divorces in Egypt are [slightly more than] a quarter as frequent as marriages. I shall appreciate it indeed if you would be so kind as to correct the aforementioned statement...
...Friday the story was shaping up. Ledsham arrived from Coventry with a first-rate story. June Rose turned up with a blue nose, some warm and revealing local color, and an anecdote: the "blinking coal crisis" did not deter a fish porter she interviewed at Billingsgate from offering her mussels, which she loathes but "swallowed-in the interest of TIME," giving a brief rèsumeè of the history of the 400-year-old market and, as a parting shot, bestowing a calendar upon her which told among other things the price of fish in the reign of Edward...
...Russell did not say so, somewhere along the line his "educated for democracy" students might also want to pick up reading and writing-and maybe even a little of what Oxford's Sir Richard Livingstone calls education's first goal: "the power of distinguishing . . . what is first-rate from what...
...Knocking around France, and reinforcing thereby his interest in modern European history. The subsequent life at Oxford was a wonderful experience. "I was thrown on my own to study as I wished. And the social side of it was pleasant-lots of good, easy going conversation." Professor Brinton's rate of absorption was patently prodigious-his Ph.D. thesis, "Political Ideas in the English Romantic Period," got a gratifying reception, and is still a much-used work in the field...
...brought, as a testament of gratitude from students there, two board and room scholarships for Harvard students. Of the $25,000 to be raised in the present drive, $21,000 is divided among the Universities of Warsaw, Athens, Peking, and Vienna, schools where hunger and a forty percent tubercular rate compete for the lives of students. The remaining $4000 buys food for Harvard's own baby, a summer rest school at Salzburg, Austria, where 100 of the best European students will be taught by leading men from our own faculty...