Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is yet hope that Princeton and Yale, the other Eastern colleges under investigation, will not be found similarly wanting. It is a deplorable reflection on education in the East that, boasting advance in material ways, it has failed to keep pace with the younger, fresher, and more aggressive ideas and ideals that are coming from beyond the Alleghenies. Can it be allowed to be said with truth that Harvard cherishes reaction...
...lines of improved mapping cameras to give accurate results which can furnish pictures with more detail and correctness. In the field of gathering information concerning troop movements, the aim has been to spot them with greater speed and accuracy. For this purpose larger cameras have been constructed to keep pace with improved aircraft which have a higher ceiling, and since more and more efficient planes are being constructed, photography must not fall behind...
Setting a high stroke and keeping a relentless pace throughout the entire race the Kent School oarsmen defeated the Harvard lightweights on April 6 with about a length advantage, while the second 150-pound crew decisively outrowed the Kent seconds...
Ethel Leginska still plays the piano far better than most members of her sex. With her new-founded orchestra last week, she played Mozart's A Major Concerto, bent low over the keys one minute, stood up the next, urging her women to keep to the brisk pace she had set for them. Her showmanship captivated a great audience. Critics thought that her players, considering their inexperience, responded very creditably to her tense, determined leadership...
...credit problem is impressive. Says he: "The industrial machine did not break. It was the financial machine that broke because it was not geared to the country." Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York proposes an annual 4% increase in the issue of credit to keep pace with estimated industrial growth. Author Crowther shares the Sloan and Snyder view and sounds it off pointblank: ''Unemployment and poverty are hardly to be considered as the natural sequences to plenty, yet that is the conclusion we are bound to reach if we adopt the theory of overproduction...