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...actually have a hard time keeping him out of the lap of guys like Claude Pepper." And John Bricker was heard to remark last summer: "I hear the Socialists have gotten to Taft." These hyperboles indicate, at least, that if Taft wears the party harness, he goes his own gait...
...could hardly have chosen better. From his scrubby grey mustache to his trotting gait, Dr. Ivy is as American as baseball...
...setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...
Last week, around a track near London where racing dogs joined him on Thursday and Saturday nights, Bert ambled along at a casual gait until he had walked an even 1,000 miles. He rested as little as possible, slept in a little hut off the track, ate crab sandwiches and tea, went wandering off his beaten path occasionally-once to see himself in a newsreel. He smashed to bits a 137-year-old world's record of 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours; his time was only one-third that...
...year). Wrote the editors: "Because it is a child, we are pleased with it. Because it is just a child, we look forward to its growth and development." To readers of such sophisticated Catholic journals as Commonweal and America, Integrity looked like a child indeed. Its gait was sometimes uncertain and its voice had a tendency to crack and tremble with emotion, but its eyes were wide and clear...