Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face of the cliff by five or six feet and a moment later the unfortunate guide followed it. The turn of rope around the rock saved the others for the sharp edges of the rock severed the rope as the weight of the falling body strained it. At any rate the body of the luckless climber was found when the two who were left descended. So these moving pictures are being shown to various audiences for the benefit of the widow and children of the lost guide. The Mountaineering Club is not charging admission to the pictures and welcomes...
Women musicians of the first rank are so rare that their existence is denied by many ardent protagonists of masculine superiority, but if there are such things as first rate women artists outside the specialized field of vocal music, the consensus of critical opinion places Miss Varady among them. Although her appearance today is primarily in connection with Music 4, those responsible for the conduct of the course extend the usual cordial invitation to all members of the University. Even if it makes one late for luncheon at some gay gathering elsewhere in New England, the Vagabond recommends attendance...
...From the American Council of Learned Societies, President Coolidge received a first volume of the new, exhaustive Dictionary of American Biography, which will contain 20 volumes when completed. The first volume contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead...
...these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only by the Observatory staff, but also by frequent visitors from observatories in America and abroad. The collection is being increased at the rate of approximately 4000 plates annually, so rapidly that an additional fireproof plate vault must be erected soon...
...trend encouraging and significant. This gain is the sign of one of the nearing objectives in the Harvard academic system. The tendency may be taken as indicative of a desire on the part of undergraduates to take from College more than the common share would allot them. At any rate it suggests that more men yearly are striving, aided by tutorial conferences and the Reading Period, at least to sound the depths of learning...