Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kramer muffed an easy point, Sedeman managed to edge the old pro, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. But little Pancho Segura was still dubious about the Aussies' long-range chances: "These guys got a lot to learn about tennis-all they know is attack. No change of pace, can't lob." Then Pancho broke into a wide grin: "I beat these guys any day-next month even...
...Each laborious triumph in food production will only put off the evil day. The earth's population will double again, again and again. After ten centuries of well-fed doubling, it will have increased 1,024 times. In the unlikely event that the food supply will have kept pace, another mere thousand years of doubling will certainly bring the end. In the year 3953 A.D., the earth will be felted with people as thick as mold on a Camembert cheese, and they will need 1,000,000 times as much food as is produced today. "It is quite impossible...
Last year Army Secretary Frank Pace decided to find an "all-Army" song. He set up a civilian-manned Army song board (from ASCAP, B.M.I, and six record companies), and by last week some 700 tunesmiths had sent in their entries...
...emotional cliche and embellished it with enough snappy dialogue to partially hide her lack of originality. Producers Paul Crabtree and Frank Hale did well in selecting three excellent actresses and one adequate actor for the lead roles. Crabtree finished the job with generally tight direction that seldom lets the pace drag...
...Midwestern U.S. town must have looked in the 1880s. But the impression would be only tintype deep, for Author Sandburg has seemingly cared little about looking past the frock coats and working clothes for attitudes and feelings. Moving about from home to school to barbershop, he has recalled a pace of life that the U.S. will surely never know again, and the nostalgia he evokes is sometimes as moving as a Sandburg folk song. What is lacking is the elusive human dimension that James Thurber caught (for Columbus, Ohio) in The Thurber Album...