Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...returned with a feather duster, which she shook around the room, thereby shifting the dust from the bookcase to the centre table, from the centre table to the side table, and so about the room. I have calculated that the dust revolves around the room at the rate of once in four days, and that it gains half its volume in every revolution...
...Nine this year seem thoroughly in earnest, and determined to wipe out the defeats of the last two seasons; and with honest work and steady practice there is no reason why they should not. At any rate they may well feel satisfied with their first appearance...
...current of one mile an hour at the least, and by avoiding half of that by keeping near the wall, during the ten minutes on the home stretch, a gain (if these premises are right) of 264 feet would be made. When the tide is running out at the rate of four or five miles an hour in mid stream, still greater loss or gain might be made by the steering...
...prowess to his friends. Not that we mean to say that ten or twelve miles is not a good walk, but it should be taken oftener, and men who do not take other exercise should accustom themselves to walking for an hour or two every day at the rate of four or five miles an hour. There is nothing so invigorating as a good, brisk walk with the shoulders thrown back and the chest expanded, and, besides, the country about Cambridge is well worth exploring on Saturdays and on leisure afternoons...
...though not very strong as yet, that an annual University crew is a very expensive amusement, and that, unless we are sure of victory, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle. On this account the crew should make it a point not to run into debt, or, at any rate, they should realize the necessity of avoiding all waste of money. Most of the trouble, however, about getting boats has been in the Holworthy club, which has been so small that it was only entitled to three seats beside the six and four oared boats; but perhaps its splendid record...