Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Around, the World In 80 Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can get round it in four; but you do not see much of it on your way. The whole prospect and outlook of mankind grew immeasurably larger, and the multiplication of ideas also proceeded at an incredible rate. This vast expansion was, unhappily, not accompanied by any noticeable advance in the stature of man, either in his mental faculties or his moral character. His brain got no better, but it buzzed more...
...wheat exporters-the U.S., Canada, Australia, France and Uruguay. It would permit 37 importing nations to buy at a price of $1.50 to $1.80 a bu. for No. 1 Manitoba wheat at Ontario ports the first year, and as low as $1.20 a bu. in the fourth year. (This rate would allow a maximum of $1.98 a bu. at U.S. Atlantic ports...
...three other noted American educators claimed that at the present rate-American teachers are being trained, less than 50 percent of the elementary teachers will be available by the end of the ten-year period...
Meeting for one hour a day, Monday through Friday, the course aims at speeding up the reading ability of its students without a concurrent loss of comprehension. Motion pictures, flicking groups of words on the screen at an increased rate of speed as the course progresses, aid the student to do this...
Though the course is not a guaranteed cure-all, the average student improves noticeably, records show. A student who reads at the rate of 200 words a minute at the beginning of the course can often read 400 to 420 words a minute at the end of the month's grind, and still maintain his previous rate of comprehension...