Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pile of 100 used light bulbs. Prize clue, the police considered, was the size-11 bedroom slippers. They set a policewoman translator at the Doctor's desk, soon had a list of eight suspects. At week's end they were hunting a heavily muscled young third-rate prize fighter called "Swede," had traced him to a Florida-bound bus. All the paraphernalia of an international murder mystery surrounded the case: only the motive was missing...
Progress. "The Chinese," White concluded, "have advanced during the war from a fourth rate Army to a second rate Army. This is progress. Before the war the Chinese Armies were notorious for the fact that they could run faster and retreat in worse disorder than any known national group of armed men. This was understandable because of the world in which they lived, and the causes for which they were asked to die. Cowardice was common-'kai pa' ('I'm afraid') was heard on every hand. But the present Chinese Army has spirit. It glows...
...Germans during 1940 will have as many as 400 U-boats in commission and that they are producing these vessels by a chain-belt system, I wonder if they are producing the U-boat captains and crews by a similar method. If so, it seems likely that our rate of destruction might well undergo a similar expansion...
...warm up to professional, itinerant ice shows. Last week, however, when the Ice Follies of 1940 hit town, New Yorkers crammed Madison Square Garden to the rafters for six nights, whistled and stomped like yokels. For suddenly, it seemed, the variety-show-on-ice had crystallized into first-rate entertainment...
...Charles thinks their cousin, Fanny Cashel Hoey, was an impressive Victorian novelist. Bernard: "Fanny was a first-rate literary hack...