Word: pace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tuesday. For more than a mile the crews were nearly on even terms. Going under the Harvard Bridge, three-quarters of a mile from the start, Crew A and Crew C, stroked by Norton, were neck and neck, with Crew D, with, Hall setting the pace, half a length behind. Slowly, however, the eventual winners pulled ahead. From the Henley mark to the finish the distance widened, until at the end Crew A was a length and a quarter ahead of Crew C, with Crew B trailing Norton's boat by a similar margin...
...city in the finals of the national amateur racquets tournament, Mr. Morgan having previously disposed of Stanley G. Mortimer, defending champion. Mr. Pell smashed hard drives to the front wall; drove the ball close to one side wall and then close to the other; employed a baffling change of pace; overwhelmed his opponent, 15-4, 15-9, 15-7. Winning is no novelty to Mr. Pell. At the conclusion of this tournament he found himself U. S. singles champion for the eighth time, co-holder of the U. S. doubles title, Canadian singles champion, co-holder of the Canadian doubles...
From the opening fall of the puck, both teams set a fast pace that told on the players and found both teams exhausted at the close of the game. After 12 minutes of play in the first period, Coady whirled down the right lane, and launched a wicked shot that skidded past the net, right into Stanley, waiting in front of the cage. From a cluster of Green defense men, the Crimson substitute slipped the disc through and past Bott for the first score. In the second stanza, Coady took the puck down center ice, and his crashing drive straight...
Against the Blue the Harvard team maintained the pace it set in the encounter with the University Club. If Yale had started Warner, the game might have been closer for the first-period goals by Scott and Clark should never have reached the net. But by the same token, if Harvard had not utilized an all-substitute defense composed of Coady and Howard at the end of the second stanza, Knight's goal would probably have been averted...
...this the only beating Gambler-Publisher Bonfils suffered during the week. The Post started to run Chickie, a fiction serial proved by trial in other cities as infallible bait for morons. But the flapper-heroine had scarcely been seduced before the News saved all Denver the petty pace of many tomorrows by flooding the city with Chickie, complete in book form, free with News want ads. . . . The circulation manager of the Post resigned...