Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
...death rate from inhaling coal dust may not be as great as the death rate from taking poison or being shot, but the discomfort and dirt caused by our very smoky city is visible on every hand. Ask those who come in contact every day with the nuisance caused by too much smoke. Ask the women folk, who know more about it and talk more about it than the males...
...words which students, in varied fields answering various types of questions, can write without having to pause is not over 1,300 words per hour. These figures will be admitted to be high, for many men questioned were amazed to find that others did write at such a rate. By applying these figures to the English 72 examination the student's handicap is apparent...
...rate of 1,300 words an hour the number of words in which to discuss each of the questions about each of the poets will be 130. In those 130 words the student is expected to give, for instance, the account of circumstances and events affecting the poetry of Wordsworth and to give a brief statement of the results of those influences. Several lectures were devoted to tracing such influences in the poetry of Wordsworth, and the brief notes run into thousands of words. Much of this is, of course, unnecessary on an examination; but even in the bare outline...
...Shattuck has been studying the prevailing diseases in Yucatan and the cause of high mortality. He already has determined that the high rate of mortality is due particularly to intestinal diseases, and that a great deal of the infection is caused by contaminated water supplies. On the present expedition Dr. Shattuck will continue his studies, begun last year, to investigate the susceptibility of the Indian to certain blood diseases. He will study the basic metabolism of the aborigines...