Word: paced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of this year discussion of the keystone treaty has proceeded at a tepid pace with Secretary Hull frankly in the suitor's role, Great Britain favorable to an agreement but hesitant to disturb the network of preference agreements with her Dominions which followed the Ottawa Conference of 1932. These agreements were discussed by the British Government with Dominion representatives at the Imperial Conference after the Coronation, apparently without settling which part of the Empire should make the necessary concessions to the U. S. But during the past troubled month of European diplomacy the British Cabinet suddenly took...
...great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs Dr. Lin. "I am happy...
...Glazier '39, Hartford, Connecticut; H. Harris '39, New York; H. E. Kirkby '40, Norwich, New York; M. Lichterman '39, Brooklyn, New York; S. L. Madey '40, Buffalo, New York; R. M. Meyers '38, Newark, New Jersey; E. Mitchell '40, Hartford, Connecticut; L. K. Nash '39, New York; W. T. Pace '40, Waterbury, Connecticut; H. McC. Palmer '39, New York; J. C. Perham '40, Waterbury, Connecticut; E. J. Pols, Jr.'40, Arlington, New Jersey; R. A. Porter '40, Penn Yan, New York; L. I. Radway '40, Staten Island, New York; J. A. Rich '38, Hazardville, Connecticut; S. Ritvo '40, Hartford, Connecticut...
Those who figure that an author's abilities should at least keep pace with his public's have had their calculations upset by Author Masters' post-Spoon River performances. Thirty-two generally humdrum volumes of prose and verse have poured from his pen into the literary ocean, and have disappeared with faint gurgles barely audible to the public at large. But the sense of Poet Masters' potential ability lingers on; and to a loyal band of U. S. readers every new Masters book comes bound in hope as well as boards...
...love I'm After," the current attraction at the Metropolitan, turns out to be one of the maddest and most riotous farces of the season. It moves along at a terrific pace and permits the audience no rests between laughs...