Word: rate
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...petitioners, each with his own little claim for preferment. In some cases these requests are deserving, but the great majority have the weakest grounds for appeal and are most persistent in their demands. In fact, they exaggerate their importance to such a degree that it is difficult to rate them at their true value. As a rule these men realize the insignificance of their claims, but hope to impose upon the good nature of the authorities...
Class football series have too long been regarded as a joke--at any rate that is the most charitable explanation of unfair tactics which have frequently appeared among the players as well as the spectators. This year the captains are doing their best to insure fair contests, but they will not succeed unless the supporters of the teams refrain from taking a hand in the game. The winners of the series are awarded numerals--a distinction which should carry sufficient weight to check any sympathetic playing by the crowd...
...ahead and led by half a length at the bridge. Claverly and Matthews, rowing a slower stroke, were on about equal terms, and Mount Auburn Street half a length behind them. After passing the bridge, Claverly and Matthews were pulling 35 strokes to the minute, while Randolph maintained a rate of 36 or 37. About half a mile from the finish Randolph led by a length, with Claverly just over-lapping its stern. Matthews was a length behind Claverly, and Mount Auburn Street was half a length back of it. At this point the high rate of stroke began...
...good, for they made some consistent gains around those positions. Cutting has been given much attention by Coach Daly of late. His strong point is that he uses his head to great advantage, and with a little more knowledge on minute points of the game, should make a first-rate halfback...
...little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases. The immorality of our women we are fighting day by day. The large, hungry, starving crowd of the unemployed which march through London every winter present another enormous problem. Besides all this, the slums...