Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scott & Black, keeping up their sensational pace, flashed into Charleville, refueled, sped toward the finish where waiting thousands cheered their progress, reported over loudspeakers. With one motor dead, with only two hours sleep since leaving England, the Britons triumphantly set their scarlet torpedo down in Melbourne at 3:34 p. m. In 71 hr. 1 min. 3 sec.-just under three days-they had flown halfway around the world...
...bewitching personal note persists whether she sings of love or hate, boredom or jealousy. Each song has a finely chiseled pattern, an unmistakable mood built from a variety of inflections. Like Helen Morgan she likes to sit on the piano, flutter her hands. But she is as likely to pace the stage, act out each phrase. Like Libby Holman she can get her voice down to a guttural bass. But for finesse this Parisienne, now in her early 30's, has no peer among U. S. torchsingers...
...whole, our institutions of higher learning have kept pace with swift-moving progress. Here and there appear isolated charges to the contrary, as for example, the recent attack on the Harvard engineering school. In the continuous extension of higher education -- liberal and technical -- to greater numbers of American youth lies one promising route to this country's salvation. A college education is not longer, as in the last decade, a privilege -- modern youth has found it an essential factor toward success. --The Dartmouth...
...TIGER by Don Skene (Appleton-Century, $1.50) Funny -- and pumy. A tongue-in-the-cheek torne about prize fighters. Introduction by Damon Runyon to this writer's "first" sets a fast pace. The book keeps...
Johnson took office on June 16, 1933, when the National Industrial Recovery Act became effective. Internal dissension and dispute within the past eight months slowed the pace of the once fast moving organization until today it is a center of uncertainty and confusion...