Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...
...institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...
There are two breeds of U. S. racehorses: Thoroughbred and Standardbred. The Thoroughbred, developed in England, races under saddle and runs at a horse's natural gait, a gallop. The Standardbred, a U. S. product, races in harness and runs at a man-trained trot or pace.* For those U. S. citizens who remember the horse-&-buggy days, no sport takes them back so fast as a trotting race, no sport event is more endearing than the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 or more harness races held in the U. S. every summer...
...century harness races have been started by a unique method called scoring: horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes ten or 15 scores are required before the starter considers that they have all gone over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride)-with the "pole" (No. 1) horse nosing ahead. Many times seasoned drivers deliberately spoil the start in order to wear down less experienced drivers or the horse with the No. 1 position...
When U. S. auto production started down hill last spring there was a steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...