Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUNG RENNY-Mazo de la Roche-Little Brown ($2.50). A return to the early days (1906) of the Whiteoak family, 18 years before the prizewinning, pace-setting Jalna...
...play a part. Reason: the intelligent person understands and worries about his condition, and it gets worse; the madman has no such worries. To doctors, Dr. Donald Gregg of Wellesley, Mass. gave this advice: "Let us lessen our emotional load by avoiding excess of emotional stimuli, by slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which our increased but still partial knowledge has shaken...
...mathematical laws, the sections must inevitably run on at the mean level of intelligence of the men who make it up. As a result, the sections are usually designed for the C-man, acting as a ball-and-chain on the student fitted to go on at a brisker pace and leaving in a hopeless cloud of academic dust the E-man who cannot possibly keep up the pace...
...discussion with their instructors and fellow students. The E-men are concentrated in the so-called "dumb bunny" sections where they deal with fundamentals and learn the truth about history in as painless a way as possible. Between the two outposts, the C-men go on at their accustomed pace, neither hindered by their inferiors nor painfully stepped-up by the comparatively breakneck speed...
Still seeking the most satisfactory combination for his second Varsity eight, Coach Charlie Whiteside yesterday picked Roger Cutler, Sophomore brother of Bobbie Cutler, who is now stroking the first boat, to set the pace for the Jayvees, thereby entrusting the two key positions on the Varsity squad to members of the same family. Roger Cutler was brought from number two on the Jayvees to the stroke position and replaces Ced Francis, who, returned to the third boat. Roosevelt was pushed up from the number four sweep in the second boat to take Cutler's place and Oliver Scott was brought...