Word: rate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...usual custom the excess of expense above a man's ordinary rate of payment will be met by the class funds; so that it will be possible for every man to attend. The first races take place in two weeks, on April...
...tell us that improvement is impossible, it is tantamount to saying that the Randall bequest was something of a white elephant, because many of us were better off at Foxcroft last year. Personally I have ceased to nurse the delusion that board can be obtained at Randall at a rate appreciably lower than elsewhere. Many men keep their bills down to the low figure quoted in the Catalogue only because of the frequency with which they take meals elsewhere...
...decided to call her the "John Harvard." She is to be one foot longer than the "Frank Thomson" with about the same beam. The delay in finishing her has been caused by the necessity of waiting for a Roberts boiler, with which she is expected to obtain a high rate of speed. This boiler projects high above the rail, but, owing to the low freeboard, it will probably be no higher above the water than that of the Frank Thomson and will go under bridges as easily. An unfortunate feature is the funnel, which is about five feet high...
...contract speed is 14.5 knots per hour, but a higher rate is hoped for. To obtain this a remarkably large propeller will be used, the blades of which are protected by a deep false keel. The boat differs from the new Weld launch in that she has a round stern and is intended to travel on her own wave, which it is admitted will be a large one. The Weld launch, on the contrary, is designed to make a small wave which will be of advantage to the crews...
...boat will be able to maintain a much higher rate of speed than the Frank Thomson, and will not settle at the stern as the old launch did when going at full speed. Her dimensions are as follows: Length over all, 51 feet; length on water line, 50 feet; freeboard, three feet and a half; draught, 3 feet...