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Word: pace (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lifetime) to show how ridiculous musical extravaganzas can be when done wrong, and Lyricist Howard Dietz and Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Harvard Crew Headquarters, Red Top, Conn., June 11--As a result of yesterday's time trials, both the University and Jayvee crews were restricted to light workouts, going through their paces in both morning and afternoon at a low pace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CREWS HELD TO LIGHT WORKOUTS | 6/12/1931 | See Source »

...first time this week. For a change, the University and Jayvee boats went upstream, covering about seven miles in all, but never rowing at more than a low stroke. The two other crews practically repeated their morning performances, going downstream another two miles, and then returning at the same pace. The eights devoted their work to short spurts of speed, at no time maintaining a steady high stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON CREWS HELD TO LIGHT WORKOUTS | 6/12/1931 | See Source »

...ahead coming into the last turn when Williams, who had started badly, began to catch up, running with his legs wide apart, his face twisted into an expression of effort and fatigue. Eastman did not seem to be tired but he had not learned how to accelerate his effortless pace into the burst of speed a middle distance runner often needs for the finish. Williams was three steps in front at the tape. Third man was an obscure Southern Californian, Art Woessner, whom no one had expected to place. In the half-mile, however, Coach Templeton's strategy of entering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: West Meets East | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...Miss You" and "To Whisper, Dear, I Love You" (Brunswick)? Two good tunes given plenty of pace by the piano in Abe Lyman's California Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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