Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concentrators who wanted a background in English literature once took English 1. They don't any more. English 1 attempts to cover almost every English author from Beowulf to Beerbohm; it plummets through a thousand-year time span at a pace which leaves Shakespeare and Milton two lectures apiece. Examinations stress spot passages and details about the authors. When a man is through with English 1, he knows that "Proud-pied April dressed in all his trim" is from Sonnet XCVIII, and two semesters' worth of similar facts. This mass of detail may be an essential basis for English concentrators...
...pace of the game was so great at the end that the teams failed to hear the final buzzer until it rang for twenty seconds. When they did stop, the BC players whacked their sticks down on the ice with disappointment, and the Crimson squad mobbed goalie Johnny Chase, who played clearly the finest game of his career in the nets...
Last week the golden curtain at Man hattan's Metropolitan Opera House went up on Khovanchina for the first time. As the gloomy drama rolled along, at the lumbering pace of a sullen rhinoceros, the audience was sometimes confused by the Russian palace politics, put off by the arthritic English libretto. But gradually the glowing music, which had been expertly edited by able Conductor Emil Cooper, put them in a good mood...
...pace in Manhattan is more feverish and, since TV made his face familiar, has become increasingly unpleasant. "I made my living for years just talking about things I bumped into in life when I was rubbing elbows with real people," he says. "But no more. Every time I go anywhere now it's all phonied up. The minute I walk in, it's 'There's Arthur Godfrey! There...
Captain Joe Fox of the varsity once again set the pace for Hal Ulen's squad by winning his specialties, the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events. His times were 23.4 and 63.8 seconds, respectively...