Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both of Coach Haines' crews, the Freshman and the Combination, had light workouts also, with a series of racing starts interspersed with frequent sprints at a high stroke worked up to from a lower pace...
...that is good to drink. But desperate Brazilians are convinced that their course is shrewd, point to "favorable results already." By this they mean that Brazilian coffee prices have risen in New York about 40% since the coffee bonfires were lighted last year. Other commodity prices have not kept pace, remain tragically down, thus strengthening Brazilians in their will to bean destruction...
...Stock Exchange were 98,000 shares. Witness Bragg testified that the pool did not become active until five days later when the price had risen to $91.75. On that day Pool Manager Ellsworth bought 392,000 shares, sold 246,000. During the following week trading continued at a terrific pace, the price pushed up to $109.25 a share. Whipped into a frenzy by the tremendous activity at steadily mounting prices the public stampeded into the market. During the last two days of the pool's active life, Manager Ellsworth dumped 449,000 shares to excited small traders, bought only...
...Orange, has had only one race this Spring, its length and a half victory early in the season, over what was considered a powerful Navy eight, has marked it an element to be reckoned with tomorrow. The fact that Stroke Lombardi in three years has never set the pace for a losing boat is a fair indication of what kind of crews Syracuse has produced in the past, and what it is capable of against Cornell and Harvard...
Congress Dances is a new cinemusical type, noteworthy for its formality, charm, wit and innocence. It accents spectacle and pace, largely ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against...