Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contesting for all-House cross country honors, undergraduate runners will pace the river stretch today...
...York Stock Exchange as a Federal project. . . . Let us patrol well our 20th-century business highway! Let us crucify the thieves, as Pontius Pilate would have done had he been attending to his job. But do not ordain that everyone moving along on his lawful occasions shall conform his pace to that of the slowest and worst-equipped blunderer...
...weeks and had practiced racing starts since the beginning of the season. As a result it got an early lead, while maintaining a fairly low stroke. The other crews, many of whose oarsmen had no racing experience, were unable to keep a smooth stroke at a fast pace. Wilson's crew widened the margin to two lengths...
...agree that I will not go on strike or seize company property or occupy company property without authority of the company and will perform my duties in an efficient manner and not indulge singly or jointly with others in 'slowdown' or 'pace-making...
From this beginning, Director McCarey accelerates the comic pace, shows Lucy trying lamely but gamely to follow her new-found Oklahoma hearty (Ralph Bellamy) through the intricacies of "truckin'," singing prairie ballads in duo with him, listening to his tender homespun verse, with Jerry an amused and disturbing audience. As Lucy's life becomes more madly muddled, with three men complicating it, the comedy turns slapstick. High spots are Jerry's discomfiting brush with jujitsu at the expert hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith...