Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burma, for instance, is not sharply divided, like India, along religious lines. Burmese are a homogeneous people, with a relatively high literacy rate (61% for males, 17% for females). Yet this fall, as Governor Sir Hubert Ranee tried hard to set up a native government, the Burmese broke out in a rash of major strikes and riots. Disturbances crystallized last month into violently opposed factions, one led by a former Japanese puppet, U Aung San, the other by a self-styled Communist, U Than Tun. These two young (31) men have similar political and personal backgrounds; in fact, they married...
Urged on new readers at a "special Henry Wallace rate" ($5 a year), the new New Republic had a printing of 85,000 copies, more than double its usual press run. Better-known new contributors (Vincent Sheean, Chinahand Theodore White) had "writing arrangements," would have no say in editorial direction...
Under the supervision of William G. Perry '35, Director of the Bureau of Supervisors, two unprecedently large classes of 85 and 100 students this week completed one month courses to increase reading rate and comprehension...
...student playgoer and his companion aren't particularly anxious to see a third-hand version of a second-rate Broadway production in which the favorite college wit unsuccessfully attempts an imitation of Monty Wooley or Victor Moore. Nor are they cheered to the point of unharnessing two dollars to listen to a short-haired female with a ereased face speak several languages miserably in a baroque drama by a rococco Slovene mystic. Shakespeare and Jonson may seem hackneyed to the man whose camp-chair bears the words "Director," but they are being done weekly in the classroom with great success...
...from many different walks of life. Military heroes, Indian fighters, business men, and politicians have had their day in the White House, Now, in this modern age, when the peace of the World may well depend upon the wise control and development of atomic energy, we need a first-rate scientist...