Word: paced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, the Yardings will try hard to keep up the unbeaten standard set by the 1940 team last year, and with such speedsters as Kraus, Powers, and Bosworth, they are sure to set a hot pace. Max Kraus is as fine a breaststroker as the Freshman class has ever seen. He holds the Yardling 100-yard record...
...navigate with even a modicum of safety, or a minimum of alacrity, so essential in these days when time-saying becomes all important, the student is forced to place one foot in front of another with extreme deliberation, and like a tight-rope walker, proceed at snail's pace. If the journey be from Dunster House to Widener Library, perhaps ten minutes will be wasted instead of five...
...narrative. Forever Ulysses clips along at a fast pace. Readers who like a breathing spell at intervals may linger over such reflections as these: ". . . The spirit of Greece . . . from the time of Hermes . . has changed but little. . . . When a Greek has learning he understands nothing; and when he knows nothing he understands everything. ... To exploit the natives of every country is for the Greek an atavistic dream. . . . For the Greeks alone have known how to worst the Jews." The resulting Greek portrait may seem to Occidentals as confusing and contradictory as Balkan activities generally, may also constitute a tribute...
...whole club has been drastically reorganized in order to keep pace with new developments and to provide for a growing membership which has new reached over 60. In addition to the new constitution, a college chess ladder open to all undergraduates has been organized...
...brief period early last season his revamped Athletics rode along in first place, but the hot pace finally told on his rookies and they finished seventh. But despite his ailments and his 75 years, Connie Mack is not disheartened. "I certainly hope to be back waving a score card next spring," he said. "I am putting myself in condition now for the forthcoming campaign. . . . It's such a little time I've been around. I want to have one more championship...