Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoners are being paroled at the rate of 15 per day to make room for new convicts...
...that his reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static man was passing through 70 years of the Astronomer Royal's time the other, provided he traveled sufficiently fast, would, during the same period, have need for only 365 dinners, luncheons, breakfasts, the same number of eight-hour rest periods, and would to all appearances...
...hired orchestras, got his experience that way. In Paris a group of Cincinnatians heard one of his concerts, marked his magnetic energy, his romantic appearance. They decided that he was the man to reorganize the Cincinnati Symphony. To Cincinnati he went in 1909, built up a first-rate orchestra (and a baseball team among the players). While there he married Pianist Olga Samaroff who bore him a daughter, Sonia Maria Noel. His work as conductor soon attracted the attention of Philadelphians, particularly of the late Andrew Wheeler, blue-blooded secretary of the Orchestra. Wheeler felt that Philadelphia also needed some...
...fifty. Doubtless he wears the same mustard suits, has the same temperamental aversion to drafts, the same outmoded predilection for Kipling and Dickens, and the same sadistic joy in making a late comer to his class or reading room miserable. He cannot have changed. And in days when second-rate academicians clutter the pages of "Who's Who" with learned degrees, and still bore their students; when university statisticians reckon in card catalogues the efficiency records of the faculty members, it is good to recall the impression that "Copey" has left upon these decades of Harvard men. He taught...
...above strictures, however, as to elementary languages as taught in Harvard College do not apply to the more advanced courses, where the literature is studied by university methods rather than the grammar by second-rate high school instruction. Of course, the College must continue to offer elementary language courses, which will be then confined to at least nominally interested students, without the bored and hampered clutter of dean-driven sufferers. But although French 2, which would be abolished under the proposed scheme, and German A, which would be confined to pupils for scientific or cultural reasons interested in beginning...