Word: pace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which the result will be "the inevitable tyran nies and incompetence of Federal bureaucracies." Let the South strengthen its state governments to keep pace with its industrial development. - Governor Albert G. Ritchie of Maryland...
...Only organized capital," Governor Farrington, has said, "could have furnished progress at so rapid a pace. . . . They [the "first families" discussed above] own or operate nearly all the valuable lands. Will the time come when these large holdings will have to break up under the pressure of a growing population? No one can look that far into the future...
...supposed the case of an aviator able to fly at a speed equal to Earth's rotation (roughly, 1,000 m.p.h. midway between Poles and Equator). If the flyer flew against the rotation of the earth, from east to west, he would keep pace with the sun, remaining constantly at the o'clock when he started. Going the other way, eastward, he would pass a whole day in 12 hours...
...collected and arranged in about onethird of the book but Author Sinclair evidently got weary of the creative task he had set himself and fell back on bare-faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...
...London bridge, for although Yale has the edge in experience, the crews are almost equally powerful. Yale's advantage in experience--six Elis have raced the four gruelling miles as opposed to four Harvard sweep-swingers, and Laughlin has rowed two winning races while Watts has never set the pace in a four-mile contest--gives the Blue whatever slight pre-race odds there...