Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Becher's Brook the second time, Kellsboro Jack, Remus. Delaneige and Slater, the horse Jock Whitney sold a fortnight before the race, were setting the pace. Gregalach missed the jump, fell and broke a blood-vessel. Miss Paget's Golden Miller, the prime favorite, lost his rider. At Valentine's Brook, Kellsboro Jack, getting a beautiful ride from little David Dudley Williams whom many experts consider England's best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year...
...courses take the place of four others which were essentially for graduates, opening a wider field to undergraduates. This changes is typical of the department. Small enough to be free from red tape and continually growing, changes are made when necessary, removing obsolete courses, adding newer courses to keep pace with the continually changing state of the science of psychology. With many related-fields and a open mind the department is constantly becoming more complete for the student...
...What is needed is a speedier, stronger handling of the existing laws. Congress has recently acted to speed up the appellate process in Federal courts. This should be extended to state jurisdiction as well, making it possible to hurry procedure along at something better than the current snail's-pace. If this were brought about, there might be a chance of curbing the wide-spread corruption in banking circles...
...station dotted and dashed out 15,000 words on two wave lengths, 20.64 meters for the Western Hemisphere, 38.47 meters for the East. So that even poorly equipped stations could receive, the League slowed down its 130 words-per-minute automatic transmitters to a crawling 25 words-per-minute pace. Soon Washington asked for a speed-up to 75, impatient Shanghai clamored for 100. But Buenos Aires said they could handle not more than 30 words-per-minute and the League refused to flash faster than that. Long before the ten hours were up, the Imperial Japanese Government and they...
...needs of men have multiplied absolutely and relatively with the expansion of industry. There is not a single honest commodity, whether a necessity of life, a comfort or a luxury, of which enough is produced to supply the living need. But need and purchasing power have not kept pace with each other. . . . The crux of the situation . . . lies in the fact that things are produced to be sold at a profit to people who want them but do not receive enough wages to pay for them." Kallen backs no panaceas, names no dark horses, urges U. S. Individualists to devise...