Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools from which the men come and especially the fact that at Harvard students must be prepared for work of university grade at the beginning of the Sophomore instead of the Junior year, the problems of transition will always be more difficult than in the average college, the pace faster, and the rate of mortality somewhat higher. But if we are to derive the best possible results from the raw material which is sent to us, give every one an equal opportunity to make good according to his talents, and provide greater incentive for scholarly work, it is necessary...
Newspictures is at best a losing business. Through the pace-setting enterprise of the Hearst services, and the entry of Associated Press into the picture field, competition has become more costly than ever. Last week P. & A. Photos Inc. (owned by New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune) decided after nine years trial that the burden was unwarranted, sold out to Scripps-Howard's Acme News Pictures Inc. Head of the combined service will be Acme's small, dapper, wisely-smiling President Fred S. Ferguson. To help President Ferguson cover the world as A. P. does, United Press...
...single cancellation. And I haven't seen a soup kitchen anywhere. Even in 1908, after the Roosevelt panic, there was more hardship than you can find now." Meantime, the following took place all over the country as the nation's relief organizations accelerated their pace in the race against human misery: ¶ In Washington President Hoover asked Congress for an extra $151,000,000 to pay wages on Federal works already authorized. While Democrats forgetful of their harmony pledges grumbled against giving him so much loose change with no strings attached, the House Appropriations Committee framed a bill...
Sometimes crawling at a walking pace along the narrow, level path past the cots, sometimes swooping at 30 m. p. h. around the steep sides of the great bowl built of spruce boards in Madison Square Garden, bicycle riders raced in the 40th International Six-Day Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road...
...best from Girl Crazy. Can This be Love? and Three Little Words (Columbia)-Two best-sellers mellowed by the Ipana (Toothpaste) Troubadours. What a Fool I've Been and After All, You're All I'm After (Brunswick)-Tom Gerun plays these smoothly, with plenty of pace. Bolero and La Seduccion (Victor)-The inevitable popularized version of Ravel's symphonic hit coupled with a teasing tango...