Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring rodeo and softened by rain, these two great milers let their second string men&151;Leach of Oxford, Vipond of Cornell&151;set the pace for the first two laps. Then Lovelock took the lead with Bonthron close behind. Knowing Bonthron wanted him to set a fast pace, Lovelock set a slow one. When. 130 yards from the tape, Bonthron started his sprint, Lovelock was ready for him. He sprinted too, turned his head...
...Dear Clarence, requiescat in pace...
...discovered that she was excellent adult entertainment in the otherwise mediocre Stand Up And Cheer. Immediately Paramount borrowed her for Little Miss Marker. While this picture was proving a thumping box office success all over the country. Fox ground out Baby, Take a Bow. For the sweatshop pace which has pushed Shirley Temple through an average year's work in four months they had a good business-like reason: growing children shoot overnight into gangling youngsters...
...motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training separately, golfing together. There he put on track clothes, limbered up for a few minutes while a crowd of 25,000 Alumni Day visitors poured into Palmer Stadium. At the gun, Venzke, best stylist of the three, set the pace. Cunningham passed him at 500 yd., Bonthron on the next curve. What happened next was so amazing to spectators that they could scarcely believe their eyes. Cunningham reeled off the fastest third quarter on record - 61.8. Then he really opened up and whipped around the last quarter in the incredible...
Wall Street scarcely noted the bill's passage. On the New York Stock Exchange stocks were slipping to new lows for the year. Trading volume dwindled to the slowest pace in eleven years. With regulation a fact, weary brokers frankly admitted that in their fight against a Federal strait-jacket they had painted the future somewhat blacker than it was likely to be. Their business would be different under Federal rule but by no means extinct...