Word: paced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the shabby Greensboro station an hour or two back through the hills to a smart, new station. Like as not the Travelers Aid attendant will invite you to use her telephone instead of the pay-booth. She is Winston-Salem's first hostess and sets the pace for hospitality. Climbing a steep green hill you arrive in the city's centre, where a huge factory, trim and modernized, notifies you at once of the city's presiding power: REYNOLDS...
...agency's copy writer has caught TIME'S style. His production of snappy copy has averaged as well if not better than any issue of TIME. You will be frank to admit, I am sure, that not all of your staff members can maintain the swift pace set for them by the master author of TIME'S unique manner of expression. You are fortunate in having this series in the hands of one who could take his place among your capable group of reporters without your readers ever missing a bit of your clever flow of prose...
...knew Mr. Roosevelt and watched him that the part played by Elihu Root hurt him deeply. . . . Late at night, when the last of his advisers had left him, Mr. Roosevelt was in a state of excitement such as I had never seen before. When left alone he continued to pace up and down the room like a caged lion. I knew it would be useless to talk to him. So I just went over to his side and walked up and down with him. Gradually he slackened his pace a little, and then I touched...
...into the finals. His match against Champion Tilden was not exciting. The report had gotten about the clubhouse that the champion was planning to make a four-set match of it and to run the Texan ragged with drives to the corners, trap shots, and every variation of pace and length, to tire him against the doubles later in the day. Mr. White had evidently made up his mind not to be a sacrifice. He never ran after his opponent's placements, but did what he could with the shots that came within reach. If he had used every...
...onions, Easter lilies, lyric grottoes and healing sunshine, has never heard the honking rattle of an automobile or the clank of a chuffing train. But Great Bermuda, the largest of the islands is 14 miles long, 1 mile wide. Hack horses and bicycles simply cannot keep up the pace, either of today's onion industry or of modern fashions in holiday-making. Last week, after a 50-year struggle with transportation, the islanders announced that they would have, not automobiles to bury the scenery in pulverized coral from the roads, but a discreet little third-rail electric railroad, linking...