Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charter was granted to the New York Gas Light Co., which later became Consolidated, making the present company the third oldest illuminating gas concern in the U. S. Its expansion has been regular rather than phenomenal, but in recent years the pace has been accelerated. A power in Con. Gas finance is Nicholas F. Brady and a power in its operation is George Bruce Cortelyou, president of Con. Gas since 1909. Once Mr. Cortelyou was a stenographer in the Federal Court of New York, then a Roosevelt cabinet member and national G. 0. P. chairman. A subway rider, he travels...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary: "I go about in the colleges now and I have to report to young women. If the Church is not going to keep pace with modern society and ' give women the right of becoming pastors, we are going to lose their support. They feel that a stigma is placed on them...
...tutorial method here is that while the weekly section meeting will provide for all necessary discussion of themes and lectures to the section as a whole, the conferences will be better able to take care of the more advanced work because each conference group will set its own pace. The advantage of a group of four over an individual conference lies in the interchange of ideas possible in such a group...
...committee moved its hearings back to its own quarters because not enough Wets had been present fortnight ago to fill the House Caucus Room (TIME, Feb. 24). The small committee room was crowded with 300 ardent spectators. Its air grew hot and sour. Thirty newsmen scribbled rapidly to keep pace with the flowing testimony of Wet witnesses. Idaho's Dry Senator Borah dropped in but, after hearing the audience applaud a particularly violent denunciation of the 18th Amendment, hastily withdrew. He, like others, knew that all the Wet noise would not sway a Dry Congress into relaxing...
...might well meet with the approval of some of the larger colleges, but it seems pretty certain that the smaller college teams would view such action with alarm. As a matter of fact, Joe Stubbs, Harvard mentor, has repeatedly come out against the adoption of pro regulations. The fast pace made possible by forward passing would be a considerable drain on the stamina of the college skaters; even the seasoned and hardened professionals have found it necessary to use three forward lines to maintain the speedy clip. Of course the amateur twelve player rule would have...