Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slid his beat down to 31, Yale drew even and then ahead, three quarters of a length at the half mile, two lengths at the mile. Here, where an inexperienced oarsman might have tried too hard to whittle down the lead, Cassedy was satisfied to let Yale set the pace. From time to time, fencing with Bill Garnsey in the stern of the other shell, he sent his beat up, dropped it again when Yale answered the challenge. Finally, after two miles and a half, Quarrier, Yale No. 4, caught a crab. It was the break that Cassedy had been...
...stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years ago. Donoghue's instructions were to win if he could, but otherwise to set the pace for Hyperion...
...race, twice reduced to a snail's pace while wrecks and bodies were being removed, was exciting because of a new rule forbidding cars to carry more than 15 gallons of fuel-to cause more stops for gasoline and thus insure frequent changes in the lead. Bill Cummings took the lead first, lost it to Fred Frame, last year's winner. Frame was eliminated when he crashed the wall (without injury). "Babe" Stapp of Los Angeles shot ahead but, hoping to increase his lead by not stopping for gas, came to a dead halt when his tank went...
...Martin bomber is a mid-wing monoplane with retractable landing gear, two 550-h.p. Cyclone engines built into the wing. A transparent enclosed turret in the nose houses a machine gun crew. In tests the ship had to be throttled down to keep pace with its convoy of pursuit planes...
...which at least half was to be paid in work. She went north to raise money, got her first $50 in Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman's church in Brooklyn. Andrew Carnegie gave the first endowment money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took...