Word: rate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...shortly after nine o'clock. The path of total eclipse, which is but fifty-four miles in width, extends from Mexico across the United States to Norfolk, Va., and ends at Thebes, Egypt. The shadow will begin over Mexico soon after eight o'clock, and traveling at an average rate of twenty-seven hundred miles an hour will reach Egypt about half-past eleven...
...Lowell Memorial Library of Romance Languages, devoted to the uses of advanced students, now contains about 1200 volumes, more than double the number in its possession last year. If it continues to increase at the present rate it will eventually supplant the Gore Hall Library in this class of book...
...platform was adopted containing the following principles: Opposition to imperialism, to the present tariff rate, to trusts, and to an increase of the army; support of free trade for Porto Rico, of the reduction of the war tax, of an increase of the navy, of civil service reform, and of the gold standard...
...authorizing them to take land for such purposes as public playgrounds. The question was whether the statute should be interpreted to mean that the Park Commission should not take more than $200,000 worth of land in one year, or that they should not expend money at a greater rate than $200,000 a year for land so taken. The respondents claimed that the latter was the true interpretation of the law, and that they were therefore entitled to purchase the tract of land in question; for as the board expended but 463,000 last year, there was a balance...
...rate of increase of the Law Library is now about one-half of that of the Gore Hall Library...