Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank Pace Jr. LL.D...
...Frank Pace Jr., Secretary of the Army LL.D...
...machine-like Ben Hogan was never one to let a tough course bother him for long. On the second round he cut his score to 73, moved up to 16th place (with ten others), five strokes off the leading pace set by South Africa's Bobby Locke. In the third round, Hogan's 71 gained three more strokes on Locke, then in a tie for the lead with Jimmy Demaret. Going into the final round, Hogan teed off early, wound up by giving the others something to shoot at: a spectacular 67, the first par-busting score...
...irony about Harvard's current problem of having to keep pace with its Ivy rivals in hunting nationally for applicants is that Harvard in the thirties was probably the first college to initiate such a policy. Admissions programs were then far calmer and more relaxed than they are today. In fact, President Conant's 1934 National Scholarship program was probably the biggest step ever taken up to that time by an eastern school to become a truly "national college." Alumni Scholarship Committees began multiplying in the West, where the early National Scholarships were concentrated...
Along the Great Divide (Warner) goes on the theory that an established star's debut in chaps & spurs calls for a little tone. To make Kirk Douglas at home on the range, the movie adopts a solemn, moody pace and a story line that tries him mightily with all the usual hazards that western heroes are heir to, and caps it all by supplying him with a high-class neurosis...