Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours of department store activity are long, the work confluing. It is a business where added responsibility means more work and longer hours. The turnover of employees is large and many department store people feel that forty is the deadline on age: beyond that the pace is too fast...
...after the practice yesterday, when Roger Cutler was shifted out of stroke to the number 2 oar and John Clark put in his place. Roosevelt will move out of the number 2 seat to take over Clark's place at 6. The third boat stroked by Ed Simmons, the pace-setter in the 1935 Yale race, has exchanged a couple of men with the number IV boat, but when the latter boat is dissolved in a day or so Whiteside will probably select two or three of the best men to take positions in the third eight...
...girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra is rich, while Roberta is a poor factory girl. The story begins to unfold on the one articulated set 'at an accelerating pace. Now feeling as if he were in a nightmare, now as if he were in a lecture hall, the spectator watches Clyde's progress through his uncle's collar factory, his break with the workers in the drying room, his seduction of Roberta, his bashful meeting with Sondra...
...Climax last year made $3,227,000-a profit margin of over 50%. Year before its profits were $1,790,000. During 1935 the company paid off its $1,000,000 funded debt, boosted dividends four successive times. "Plans are under way for increasing production facilities to keep pace with the increasing demand for the company's product," wrote President Max Schott. Calling for a $2,600,000 expenditure, this expansion will be financed from profits...
...have been obviated if the proper choice of a field of concentration had been made in the first place. When the present Freshman Adviser system, with its absolute incapacity to guide the undecided student along the paths most advantageous to him, has been overhauled and brought up to the pace of Harvard progress, the burden of such last-minute admittances will be some extent lessened...