Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent the spread of tuberculosis by warning the population with posters: DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE KISSED; DO NOT KISS AN OTHER'S HAND. Officials entrusted with putting the admonition into effect had a job on their hands. Although the incidence of Latvian tuberculosis is high (tubercular death rate in the capital, Riga, is 120 per 100,000), the incidence of Latvian hand-kissing is much higher...
Most U. S. theatres are either obsolete or stupid. Famed in the profession is the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, where the builder forgot dressing rooms. Another building had consequently to be bought on the next street, to which actors could commute by tunnel. First-rate modern architects have usually done business with individuals who want sensible homes or with industrialists who want sensible factories. Broadway has been no place for them...
Back to the circus, where he belongs, is W. C. Fields in his latest movie, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man," now showing at Keith Memorial Theatre. Fields puffs and wheezes his way through a second-rate script that almost submerges the beauties of his alcoholic capers. Luckily Charlie McCarthy, with stooges Mortimer and Bergen in tow, gives the picture a hypodermic of crackling dialogue that saves it from going to sleep on its feet...
...terms of this document, Harvard agreed to pay taxes on property acquired after July 1,1928, the amount to equal the current tax rate each year applied to the assessed value of the unimproved land as of date of purchase. For the past five years this annual payment has hovered around...
Moreover, the University agreed that for property held on July 1, 1928, but which might thereafter be built on for "educational purposes," it would not claim its legal right of tax-exemption at a rate greater than 10 per cent a year. Under this agreement, which is the one Toomey wants amended, Harvard has paid about...