Word: faster
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...considerable extent. From 1871 80 the death rate decreased on an average of 1144 annually to every million inhabitants. In Massachusetts, for the last four years, the death rate has decreased. It is a startling fact, however, that deaths from brain diseases have increased 200 per cent. faster than the population...
...over the regular Charles River course. At about half past five the crews rowed out to the starting point at the Brookline bridge, - the 'varsity allowing their competitors four lengths. Both crews made good starts, '88 rowing about 34 strokes to the minute, and the 'varsity a trifle faster. As the boats came down the river the 'varsity gradually closed up the gap between them and '88, - at the Crescent Boat House there were but three lengths between them, and at the sluice way, scarcely two. Just below this point, at about three quarters of a mile from the finish...
SENIORS. The order lists for photographs must be handed in faster if the orders are to be filled. Pach Bros. cannot begin to work on them until the have them...
...class photograph lists will be sent around to day, two to each member of the class. Please notice the directions on the last page, to send one by March tenth with the pictures wanted underlined and signed, and to keep the other for a memorandum. Sittings must be made faster; at the present rate they will not all be made until fall. It does not require the expenditure of a great amount of energy to attend to the request on the postal cards I have sent, and if those to whom they are sent will attend to it, the sittings...
...like. Others maintain that the term is not so general. Still, others say nothing, but adopt a code of morals so highly elastic that they do not themselves dare to classify their acts. Is it true that the students of Harvard smoke more, drink deeper, and live faster than the students of other colleges? Let us look at the matter a little closer for a moment. In a university so large as Harvard it will be possible to find students of every shade of private character. Some of us affect the Byronic and boast themselves "perfect Timons, not nineteen." Others...