Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. groped out of Boston Harbor, Baltimore-bound. Turning down the coast past Scituate, Mass., she quickened her pace. Just at dusk her 76 passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment...
Minutes later the head porter at King's College Gate heard muffled sounds which might or might not have been shots. Shambling into the hoary building he heard a hoarse scream, quickened his pace to a bound. At the top of the stairs he stumbled over a man from whose leg and chest blood gushed-Detective Sergeant Willis...
...losers easily took the first two sets, setting a fast pace: but the Harvard players rallied, and won the last three sets without being carried to deuce. They had previously defeated J. B. Fenno Jr. '21 and H. R. Guild '17 in a long-drawn out semi-final match. 7-5, 4-6, 9-11, 6-3. This match was started over a week ago at Long-wood, but was halted at the end of the fourth set with the count knotted at two sets apiece. The final and deciding set was played at Newton, ending in favor...
Less than a year ago gentle, cultured Century magazine found the world moving at "too fast a pace," changed its own periodicity from monthly to quarterly (TIME, Aug. 5). Despite the proud note in Editor Hewitt Hanson Howland's announcement that "Century proposes to take the first move" toward more leisurely living, observers suspected a prelude to surrender. Last week the 60-year-old Century was taken over by its robust monthly neighbor, Forum, bustling "magazine of controversy...
...even, finally winning by a length and three quarters. Syracuse was out of it completely, finishing many lengths to the rear, and at no time being dangerous. It was the Cornell boat which deserved the race. After the mile, it raced Harvard on even terms, at a slightly higher pace: then it raised the stroke more, and Harvard could not answer...