Word: pace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slender, like Pershing, and youthful in appearance and manner. General Bullard has always lived at a rapid pace, and the conclusion of his career was no exception. The last few days were filled with enough activities, social and military, completely to wear out an ordinary...
...practice encounter with the regular Yale University six at Princeton during the Christmas holidays, Kent played the Eli skaters to a scoreless the three 18-minute periods. The school boys were unable to stand the pace in the extra session, however, and Yale scored three goals in short order...
...success of the Harvard undergraduates in the squash racquet courts is one more bit of distressing news to their elders that youth will be served in sports. There was a belief a few years ago, when men with hair a little sparse were setting the pace, that the game offered an exception to the rule that youth and vigor usually triumph in vigorous competitive pastimes. The argument ran that a boy of twenty was not canny enough to excell, that many years of ripening experience were essential. When Hewitt Morgan became state and almost national champion a while...
...life. It is true that man is a fighting animal. You've probably heard the story of the Irishwoman who was waving a delighted farewell to the British troops leaving Ireland. She said: 'Good-by, good-by, me darlints, now at last we'll be able to fight in pace.' Let's fight not 'in piece,' but for peace...
...Literature and life in his case went hand in hand. . . . The extent of his reservations is inscrutable, but I doubt if there be any man of our time except Tolstoi in whom life is so prevailingly articulate, in whom utterance has so nearly kept pace with sensibility. ... A sense of worth, of fineness, of service has penetrated the minds of those who know The Rise of Silas Lapham only by title...