Word: pace
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long as one can go upstairs two steps at a time, is a saying attributed to Dr. Eliot. It is difficult to believe that he ever went upstairs at such an intemperate pace even in youth.. It is remembered by one who knew him many years ago that even then his intellectual attitude was suggested by the question. "What is the next step?" but took it always deliberately, serenely, fearlessly. With all his remarkable achievement, he did not take two steps at a time. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said of him when he was a young President...
...first six-minute overtime period was necessary. In this period the men kept on the mat but still one was not able to hold an advantage for any length of time. In the next and final overtime period Saywood was unable to keep up the fast pace of the bout and Oberlander succeeded in winning the gruelling bout with a three-minute time advantage...
...whirlwind casts of Lisa and Shuffle Along were caught, white-washed and turned loose again, they might give some idea of the pace of Go-Go. No white chorus ever went quite so fast before. There is a blare of trombones, a rattle of traps, a shriek of voices. For a while the audience holds its hand to its fevered brow, blinks agitatedly a few times, watches a few scenes fly by, shudders at a few clearly indicated jokes, and then it all seems to be over. The pace is terrifying...
...time, it is a train that is guilty. The town of Pleasantville. New Jersey, may or not be "slow" but certainly its inhabitants trown on anything fast. In fact an ordinance has been passed forbidding express trains, which customarily go through the town at a sixty or ninety mile pace, to exceed twelve miles an hour within town limits. What is more the train crew violating this rule will be liable to arrest, fine, or imprisonment. The mayor, popularly known as "the policeman's friend" is determined to show himself worthy of his office, even at the expense...
...though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks, all of them forces in the newer poetry, and Witter Bynner, still the patron of Advocate poets here. And would it be malicious to include Amy Lowell herself...