Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate an unofficial poll of selected students at Radcliffe, Wellesley and Barnard, conducted recently by a certain advertising agency in connection with the promotion of a book, "The Sex Life of the Unmarried Adult," revealed the embarassing detail of comparative sex knowledge at Harvard and Columbia...
...part of a broad plan to determine the nature of the galactic system in which the solar system is a minute part, Dr. Eric M. Lindsay and Dr. Freeman D. Miller '30, of the Harvard Observatory, have been counting stars at the rate of 5,000 each day and have now completed almost half their task of classifying the estimated 10,000,000 stars of the thirteenth magnitude and above. The whole project is under the direction of Bartholomeus J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, and Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
Scraping at this rate the bug can manage to produce a sound with a frequency of about 8,000 vibrations per second, or a note five octaves above middle C, but he can also go up to 16,000 and even 32,000 without ill effects. A rise in the temperature of the room in which he is being tested will cause a corresponding increase in the sound pulsations of his fiddling, putting the tempo up from 16 per second at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, to 20 beats a second at 94 degrees Fareneit. Only a male cricket can make these...
...shall say, merely, "Surely, Mr. Hopkins' accusations, as far as Yale is concerned in the matter at any rate, are a little unjust." In speaking of "over-endowed private institutions that do not know what to do with their money," the Administrator is not quite fair to Yale--or to Harvard, Williams, and the other targets of his arrow, for that matter. Right now Yale spends just as much money as it can on aid of self-supporting students, is forced to spend less than she would like to on scholarships and fellowships. True, there are endowments...