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Word: rateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Personally, I think you overlook an item of news interest of first rate importance. Why not "take a chance"' and open up the subject in a big way (and incidentally make a host of friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 8, 1930 | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...Moreover, workers in chemistry, biology, geology, and even economics are coming more and more to realize that the rate of progress in these fields, under modern conditions, is directly proportional to the amount of mathematics they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington Declares People are Coming to Realize Abstract Beauty in Mathematics--Points Out Value of the Science | 12/6/1930 | See Source »

...dawn in the mauve ballrooms of Greater Boston. Tickled with this scandal, the dilettante society reporter proceeds to explain that the list is graded socially and not athletically. To quote: "If a man goes to Harvard and makes a varsity team, he usually makes the good clubs and therefore 'rates' at Harvard. But many who 'rate' at Harvard do not 'rate' socially in Boston. Therefore, the names of many men who are prominent in football (not so much this year), hockey, baseball--are on the "Z" list. Though lots of the debs will not understand why many temporary heroes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Audacious" Undertakes Social Classification of Harvard's 250 in Current Tatler--Names Form Only Basis of Evaluation | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

...longer hazardous to go to Boston debuts. No Man's Land has become coeducational, and the grade A Cream of both sexes is clotted. No longer must a first rate girl undergo agonies for fear she is dancing, with a Z boy. They are all classified now, Harvard and the debs. Deep will call unto deep. Audacious, who prefers to travel incognito, has done it again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

Pointing out that 95 per cent of the fighters today were once amateur, the Chestnut Hill boxer advised all first rate pures to turn professional if they wanted to support their families. After having won the amateur championship, little remains but to turn professional. The fight game has changed completely in the last ten years, Sharkey believes, as most of the boxers are married and are anxious to salt away what they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharkey Advises Young Boxers to Develop Accuracy With Left Hand as Asset in Fighting--Godfrey Bout Was Best of Career | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

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