Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tigers will be anything but a soft touch tonight. Cappy Cappon has an aroused Orange and Black squad which cannot be kept at the very threshold of the comeback trail indefinitely. Despite the addition of Bob James to the starting lineup and improved all-round play, the Crimson must rate as slight underdogs to the Bengals...
...which speak for themselves. Students spend more for meat, fish, eggs and poultry than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...
...include the supplementary appropriations which can be obtained if & when necessary to match Germany's increasing armed strength. About half of the huge sum will be met by a defense loan, the rest from Government funds, thus necessitating no increase in Britain's already almost intolerable tax rate...
Reading fat, second-rate novels nowadays is like watching the wake of a ship: they stir up a lot of suds, produce a certain hypnotic effect, and a few hundred yards back, leave no trace...
Today, and for 18 years past, the subway has been a rat hole into which Cincinnati's tax money has been poured at the rate of more than $1,000 a day in bond interest. By the time its bonds finally fall due, in 1967, the Cincinnati subway will have cost $19,000,000. It has never carried a passenger. Once during a bitter Depression winter, a score of shivering hoboes holed up in one of its diggings, until they were driven out by the police. But no tracks were ever laid in its 2.6 miles of underground...