Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately 25 per cent of the graduates go on to immediate further study, especially in Chemistry, English, and History, Dean Cameron stated. She was especially proud of what she called "the rate of persistence," the percentage of those entering who stay on to graduate. Approximately 75 per cent of each freshman class manages to put off marriage for the four years, as compared with a national average of about 44 per cent...
...every piddling scribbler who happens to be American should rate a course, of course, and the body of American literature is not big enough for a separate department. But certainly if we can lavish a course on "the so-called Scottish Chaucerians, Henry, Dunbar, Douglas and Lindsay," we can afford a course in the exclusive study of contemporary American poetry. Courses like Murdock's old one in the American novel before 1890, and Wilbur's Poe course, should be resurrected. There should be at least one full course in the modern American novel. There could easily be a course...
...selling at a good clip; manufacturers' sales of refrigerators, freezers, electric ranges and water heaters topped August 1957. Conducting interviews in twelve key fields, the American Management Association found almost all the executives expected 1959 to be a good year, looked for "a steady recovery at a tapering rate...
...first big sale of securities since early August, the Treasury last week showed how fast interest rates are climbing. It offered $1 billion in 13-month notes paying 3½%, v. 1½% for short-term securities sold in August, and $2.5 billion in special 219-day bills priced to yield 3¼%. Only three months ago Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson sold 27-year bonds, which usually sell at a far higher rate than short-term securities, at only...
Even the adepts of the Bogart cult had best stay away from this one, for they will not enjoy seeing Bogie in so dismal an undertaking. The fault, to be sure, is not his; he is in good form, and gets in some good gunplay, first-rate pistol-whipping, and concludes with a chase in the grand manner through the California mountains...