Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, John could not keep up his present pace much longer. For another, he liked to keep his United Mine Workers well in the van of other unions-and himself in the spotlight. Quite obviously, he also wanted to get his latest demands down and the issue settled before the new Congress meets in January and revises labor legislation...
...York City ¶TIME was misinformed. However, since the strictly pour le sport Bugatti interlude, O'Neill has chosen to be chauffeur-driven.-ED Jungle Pace...
...your article "End of the Road" [TIME, Oct. 21] your reference to General Stilwell "setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...
...types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which by its slower pace and ponderous force gave the piece a grandeur it could never achieve under the bombastic glitter of a Serkin or a Schuabel. Fischer's technique was at times appalling and his mistakes glaring, but the immense force strength and delicacy such as is almost non-existent today...
...choice of the war memorial, the speed of its construction the most important question. The road through the alumni committee, the President and Fellows, the drive for finances, and the actual construction may be long and winding, but it need not be traveled at a snail's pace. It was 1927 before the Memorial Chapel was built, and it may well be 1950 before the new war memorial materializes unless further six-month lapses of activity are averted...