Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peace of the World," preached Uncle Arthur solemnly. "Need I remind this great assembly that two years have gone by since we resolved that, due to the Locarno agreements, it had become possible to hold a Disarmament Conference. We have not as yet assembled that great convention. Our pace is slow and the peoples of the world are growing impatient, doubtful of our good faith...
...department will of course be an invaluable aid to the numerous scientific explorations of the University. In a larger sense it may be construed as merely another sign of the continuous efforts of Harvard to keep pace with the modern world. To Doctor Rice, founder, donor and director of the School of Geography, Harvard owes a debt of gratitude which can only inadequately be expressed verbally...
...sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
Plodding along with a majestic pace, affording no fresh angle on such a time-worn situation, That's The Woman presents no situation which audiences cannot forecast several scenes ahead of time...
...Francisco newsmen have come to expect castigation from Editor Morphy for their antics. This time, however, they knew, and knew he must know, that the paper which had set the pace on the Mooney-Billings case was the San Francisco News. The News is a Scripps-Howard paper and Publisher Roy Howard went to San Francisco personally to supervise the building up of the Mooney-Billings story into a Sacco-Vanzetti Case of the West?a feature for the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain. Observers outside of California also knew that leading papers not in the Scripps-Howard chain...