Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Feature of the third corrida of the season at the Comayaguela Fair, 50 mi. from Tegucigalpa was the appearance of one Ramiro Dominguez, second-rate Mexican matador. Major Geyer attended in a ringside seat. Attempting to execute a difficult passade, Matador Dominguez became entangled in his cape, slipped, fell prone before the charging animal. Without an instant's hesitation Major Geyer drew his service pistol, dropped the bull with a single bullet between the eyes. The air was rent with cheers for quickwitted Tauricide Geyer, mingled with boos for slovenly Tauromach Dominguez...
Drug addicts are the smartest inmates of Federal prisons, the Government figured last week. Public Health Service mental hygienists had studied the intelligence test ratings of the prisoners. Significant is the fact that 30 out of 100 dope fiends are above average intelligence. Of nonaddicts 18% rate above average, 17% defective. Only 10% of the addicts are defective...
...Senate Committee quizzed other Power Commission nominees and, without pronouncing judgment, gave out the impression that it rated none of them highly. Republican George Otis Smith, Commission chairman, admitted he had worked privately with the Insull interests for the export of power from his native Maine but could not well explain why the electric rate at Bangor should be 9¢ per kilowatt hour. He favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit...
Yale pleads for a discarding of pretence. Its team must, "either be first rate or else admit a change of viewpoint and will fully take a back seat." As long ago as early October, we made the same plea in regard to the hollow sham and empty gesture of deferred practice. It has failed miserably of its purpose: and because early season games on the next two year's schedule are already arranged, the 15th of September ruling must go and one pretence at least be removed. When the mortgaged future has elapsed, we earnestly recommend an abbreviated schedule...
...kind of thing one starts out disposed to ap- preciate to the limit. The first few pages--concerned chiefly with the ancients--are worthy of appreciation and the reader's pre-conceived sympathy undergoes no strain. But as things go on and the characters multiply at an alarming rate--there are some 64 of them in all--and the remarks attributed to each become more and-more random the limit set to one's appreciation is reached and, in the last couple of pages, unfortunately passed...