Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic and weak at the start, he suddenly worked up a pace that made watchers think of an other Californian of tremendous memory, Maurice McLoughlin, the Comet. He finished volleying duels by acing grim-faced Hunter and driving forehands past him. Hunter said he could never tell where Vines' drives were going. Score for Vines...
Derby. Pilot Lee Gehlbach, whose low-wing Command-Aire set the pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...
Kiss Me With Your Eyes and You Darlin' (Columbia)-Ben Selvin plays these with plenty of pace and ingenious orchestration...
...York Yankees: a Saturday doubleheader from the Cleveland Indians, 13 to 1 and 14 to 2. Now nearing mid season Babe Ruth, who made his 28th and 29th homeruns, is eleven days ahead of the pace he set in his best year (1927) when his total for the season...
Says Author Tilden, who ought to know: Wimbledon (England) is "the last word in tennis clubs," Wimbledon's famed centre court the finest in the world. As the reader might suppose, the story moves at a fairly fast pace...