Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mantle (83 runs batted in). Banks seemed a sure bet to become the eighth player-and the first shortstop-ever to hit more than 50 homers in a single season. Moreover, Cub fans with a faith in miracles hopefully noted that Banks was just three games off the 1927 pace of Babe Ruth when he hit his record 60 homers...
This year Round Table impressed railbirds by breezing home under 130 Ibs. to win Florida's mile-and-one-quarter $100,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap. His pace for the mile-and-one-eighth en route was just two-fifths of a second off the world record of 1:46.8. In his drive to top Nashua's moneymaking, Round Table is entered in this week's $100,000 Washington Park Handicap at Arlington and this month's $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City, NJ. and the $100,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont, L.I. Possible opponent...
This year, for the first time since World War II, the increase in U.S. church membership failed to keep pace with the population increase. The latest edition of the National Council of Churches Yearbook of American Churches, out this week, reports that church and synagogue enrollment rose only 0.9%. while the population increase is estimated at 1.7%. Last year's enrollment jump was 3%-nearly double that of the population rise...
...Macy's opened Garden State Plaza, highlighted by a three-level Bamberger's department store (a Macy's division) and such well-known outlets as A.S. Beck, Grand Union, Horn & Hardart. Sales are at a $40 million yearly pace...
...Goddess. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky and Actress Kim Stanley delivering a roaring diatribe against the Bitch Goddess, Success, at a pace that is sometimes slow, but in a tone that is marvelously Swift (TIME, July...