Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted for the accuracy of its statements and for its progressiveness in keeping abreast of the times, and its failure to include in its lexicon the word ''Radiogram" when referring to communications transmitted by radio is regrettable, even though excusable. We expect TIME to set the pace, not follow...
...there's a sore point: the old rover is homesick. With the best of intentions and a desire to keep pace with progress he packed himself off to Lowell House last year, determined to take part in the new Harvard. But after all, it's pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks and, frankly, the Vagabond is not happy in his new lodgings, even the men who paint his tower have conspired to make him blue. The youngsters round about him seem happy, but the sound of insular accents and the sight of foreign customs are too much...
...punctually Editor Aymard and Cartoonist Sennep turned up arm-in-arm in La Salle des Pas-Perdus (the hall of lost footsteps) in which journalists and deputies pace. They were set upon by a pack of Socialist statesmen. Elderly Editor Aymard jerked a dog whip from his pocket, laid about him. Deputy Barthe, a questor of the Chamber, rushed up in an attempt to preserve order as was his duty, caught the whip full across his face...
...most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...
With the formation of Charles V. Bob & Co. and a large personal investment in Rainbow Luminous Products he started the grand financial pace which he maintained until last week...