Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
Suites in Grays, Wigglesworth, and the outside dormitories, all of whose men enter Houses, will be reoccupied at a deconverted figure. Where only one member of such a crowded room moves to a House, his roommates can guarantee themselves the additional space by paying the higher rate. "Otherwise they run the risk that we will fill the vacancy," Watson said...
...original scheme. They tried "to seize also some of the Mindhold Words . . . which the world hardly yet knows it has absorbed." Consequently, a large proportion of their "Familiar Quotations" were totally unfamiliar to most people, but their Bartlett was not only a useful reference book but a first-rate bit of reading...
...What words will survive or die? That is what is called (today, at any rate) "the $64 question." Editors Morley & Everett have taken no chances. They have included a host of minor poets whose work is unknown outside the little magazines. They have recorded some of the most banal remarks ever made, simply because the authors sit in 1948's high places (e.g., Secretary of State Marshall England s Princess Elizabeth), or had high hopes of sitting there ("That's why it's time for a change," says Thomas E Dewey; "We want to feel...
...what grounds does Poet T. S. Eliot rate less than four columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column...