Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bardie '30 continues to rank above the regulars with a mark of .387, although his average has also suffered the effects of facing first rate pitchers, falling from his mark two weeks...
...Hrvd No. 1192, included in the preceding analytical tests, for comparison with Cristalina, gave most satisfactory results. Hrvd No. 9072, a tenaciously rooted, drought-resistant variety, physically adapted for cultivation on the uplands, gave a cane yield of 56.2 arrobas per caballeria on a 1922 planting and a rate of 531 bags 96 degrees sugar per cab. Hrvd No.1192, on land similar to the Cristalina test, gave a cane yield of 53.990 arrobas, and a rate of 493 bags of sugar per caballeria...
...retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went for $1,800,000; Rembrandt's Man with a Cleft Chin, probably a portrait of his son, brought $200,000; his picture of a Man holding the Torah...
When citizens later found out that the house of Morgan was still solvent, they still wondered: Why had Miss Morgan sold her name for advertising purposes?* Had her brother squandered her money in unwise investments, or, at any rate, neglected to give her prime investment advice...
...around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy's course will catch the hint that there are still a few, at any rate, who retain doubts about the success of the Harvard experiment. But the scepticism is good-humored, and the point is not pressed home...