Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan would expand Astronomy 120, Practical Astronomy, from a half-year course to a full-year course. "The change would give students a more thorough treatment of the material at a more leisurely pace," he explained...
Rugby practices in March have a determination about them that is apt to be lacking in the practices in October. The players are bigger, the pace is harder, and the prospect of a spring vacation playing rugby in Bermuda is enticing...
...indeed among friends. There were plenty of reasons why demand for stocks has gone up so fast, said Funston. Among them: easy money and credit, postwar inflation, institutional buying, the death of the excess-profits tax. At the same time the supply of stocks has not kept pace, partly because corporations have been raising money by borrowing instead of issuing stock, partly because the 25% capital-gains tax discourages investors from selling. Funston suggested that the tax should be halved, and the holding period (to qualify for long-term gains) cut from six to three months...
ADVERTISING spending is still climbing at a rapid pace, reports Advertising Age. In 1954 the 60 top ($10 million or better) U.S. and Canadian agencies billed $2.2 billion in ads, a 10% increase over 1953. Four U.S. advertising agencies cracked the $100 million mark...
...phonies have inherited the earth. Pronouncing a scarcely original, but nevertheless grandiose, anathema, he finds everyone corroded through the decline of love and the absence of Christian faith. Rangy in setting (New England, Greenwich Village, Paris, Spain, Italy, Central America), aswim in erudition, semi-Joycean in language, glacial in pace, irritatingly opaque in plot and character, The Recognitions is one of those eruptions of personal vision that will be argued about without being argued away. U.S. novel writing has a strikingly fresh talent to watch, if not to cheer...