Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jabbed, held in the clinches and saved his strength. The old snap was back in his punches, though, and the perfect timing. Again and again, Sugar suckered his man into a lead and caught him with a wicked counterpunch. The question was: How long could Sugar stand the pace...
...With a big increase in the number of college candidates, and presumably a corresponding increase in the number of qualified candidates wanting to attend Harvard, we should expand, although no one yet argues that we should double in size, which we would have to do in order to keep pace with the increase, and obviously any conceivable increase in our enrollment would take care of only an infinitesimal part of the estimated two and one half million more students who will, it is predicted, be in college in 1970. The report of the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...
...pace of the performance, which never lagged, must be credited largely to Stage Director Margaret Fairbank and Musical Director Wayne Paton. Paton coordinated the signing and accompaniment, capably done by Richard Freidberg, and managed to keep even the most crowded scenes from losing their focus. William Cowperthwaite's arrangement of the overture for two piano's played by Friedberg and Larry Berman, deserves special notice for setting standard and a mood which were maintained throughout the evening...
...past decade, favored French impressionists have quadrupled in value and the hottest moderns have increased ten times; old masters are now almost beyond price. In all, sales this year in auction rooms and galleries will reach $65 million. Can the bull market keep up the pace? Says FORTUNE: "The long-range answer seems to be that it can-and probably will." More Per Inch. "Art is not only the symbol of wealth, it is the actuality of wealth," former Metropolitan Art Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor once pointed out. And as an investment, most collectors have found...
When a friend warned Paul Kayser, president of El Paso Natural Gas Co., that his blistering pace would one day make him "fly apart like a watch spring," the 68-year-old Kayser coolly replied: "Hell, when I die I'll run 15 years on momentum...