Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team is weak with the stick. The respectable size of the team's batting average is due, however, largely to the high average compiled by Burns, Sophomore centerfielder who at present is out of the game with a leg injury. Burns was clouting the ball at a heavy rate in the first two games of the season, but as he has only been at bat on five occasions, his present average, and that of the team, is probably a bit bloated. Burns, with his four hits in two games, leads the Crimson batters with an average...
...appears that both sides may be accused of flippancy incident to over-confidence. At any rate, the epic conclusion of this cultural conundrum conning hangs uneasily in the balance; while Richard Coeur de Lion rattles his armor in his tomb...
...When he had finished his law course, I would tell him to start at once and to start as a professional politician. In politics, as in sport, the old maxim holds, 'a third rate pro is an over-match for the best of amateurs'. He will have to begin at the bottom. Politics is no different from any other profession. You cannot start at the top. I have had many friends who at one time or another thought they would like to enter politics, or 'public service' as they generally preferred to call it. Too often they have decided that...
...days of stiff cross-examination he said little to give comfort to the Wets, and it was supposed that, this time at any rate, he had escaped the disfavor of the Dry high priests...
...fourth or firth-rate author entered a certain railroad car that loaded up one day last week in the Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan, he would have thought that, verily, he had strayed into heaven. It was a car completely filled with potent publishers-about 30 of them...