Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great European tradition of design." We are thus reminded that the whole aim of Fry's life was to build up an artistic tradition n England, to put her in the front rank of artistic as she was of military powers, so that her culture might keep pace with her civilization. Oxford may have a functionary called the Buskin Master of Drawing, there may be a National Portrait Gallery and a Royal Academy, but England is not. Fry maintained, so hospitable to the arts as she ought to be. His last book may contribute, in small measure, to rouse...
...feel that she can withdraw from the international scene. "We are unsuccessful participants, however, in international affairs," he said, "because of three factors: our suspicion that the other fellow is going to put over some Machiavellian trick on us; our Senate cannot move deftly and rapidly enough to keep pace with the international parleys and agreements; and our fear for sovereign rights...
...fixings of prosperity but little of the turkey. Production of passenger cars and trucks in 1934 was 2,885,000 units, up 45% from 1933 and a clear 100% gain over 1932. Trucks alone accounted for 589,000 units, up 65%. Yet profits failed to keep pace with volume because of higher prices for labor and materials. Average automobile costs last week were estimated to be 18% above a year...
...merits as a drama, it is easy to say that the "St. Louis Kid" is good Cagney; and good Cagney, as an unfortunately large number of people know, may be depended upon to include turmoil among the gendarmerie, wisecracks in a welter, fisticuffs in the boudoir, and a pace so rapid as hopelessly to outstrip the plot. Shamefacedly, we admit to a general liking for all these inevitable ingredients, as well as for the toothsome Patricia Ellis and the dogged Alan Jenkins, Mr. Cagney's perennial henchman. The Kid himself, may best be described as presenting an able impersonation...
...they reached the horse track, Woodland and Minor moved up to pass Pier, but their bids to pass Playfair fell short as the red-jerseyed distance man stepped up the pace to finish in record time...