Word: pace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 40 minutes later, Katterman came back in the 880 and set such a withering pace that he was all alone at the finish. His time, the new meet mark, was a magnificent...
...nation's steel companies continued their record-setting production pace, operating at 94.8% of capacity...
...players could stand the road pace gaily set by Cornell, 61, and Aherne, 56, and few would seem to have less incentive. Aherne has a profitable California grape farm, and hates the road-like nearly every modern U.S. actor (TIME...
...Pace Setters. With the quickening in the architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal...
Around this intrinsically fascinating story, Author Flavia Anderson has wrapped the bulky burlap of 50-odd volumes of research. Cliché-laden and crammed with minor figures, the book has a narrative pace roughly that of a Yangtze barge hauled upstream. But it is a historical trip worth taking for readers who can match Author Anderson's labor of love with a love of labor...