Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress with his concluding story of an aged widow who looks forward to still greater mechanical marvels and wants to live to see them. His book is too crowded with well-to-do eccentrics to be a representative U. S. study. But literary motorists will object most to its pace, and reflect that no nation of murderously fast drivers ever chugged along so safely below the speed limit as do the slow characters of Clutch and Differential...
...Landon might quite often be found at home with Governor Landon and the children. What an infinitely calm, reassuring and soothing picture this presents!" Provincial Partisans. As they do the year round, the great metropolitan news papers and chains have set the pace for the rest of the nation's daily press during the campaign. Of the lesser chain publishers, peripatetic Paul Block, with seven dailies in his pocket, has pattered in the footsteps of William Randolph Hearst...
...week the two Nominees for the Presidency passed, one on his way to the White House, the other headed in the opposite direction. One train was as gay as a showboat, full of confident political advisers, competent secretaries, pretty young women and Franklin Delano Roosevelt setting everyone a merry pace. The other train, by comparison, was grim and dour, filled with advisers troubled about where the money was coming from, aides worrying over campaign details that went askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon himself. Unsparing...
...that has made flying obtainable to everyone from printer's devil to busy banker. The factory at Bradford, Pa. has increased its floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft engine and has a top speed of 87 m. p. h. It lands slower...
Whereas the latter gains pace by compressing a whole career into ten scenes, Mr. Sherriff's play loses it by stretching a single phase over eleven scenes. St. Helena is one of those plays which seems to gain stature in remembrance, with the sidelights dimmed and the details fused into a moving portrait of a crumbling conqueror, resigned but unrepentant, who clings to his destiny and keeps his iron soul to himself...