Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With improved passing and clearing, Bob Maddux's lacrossmen were almost able to keep pace with a strong Dartmouth ten after the Green tallied four rapid goals in the opening minutes of the game at Hanover Saturday. The 11 to 5 score might have been less one-sided, however, had not three of the Crimson starting team been unable to make the trip...
...Derby Day, Elizabeth Arden's two-horse varsity may get help from an unsung stablemate. Perfect Bahram, whose job would be to make the pace. They were the aces that Queen Arden counted on to rule the Sport of Kings...
Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...
...with their early Victorian times: William Holman Hunt (21), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (20), John Everett Millais (19). They hoped to recapture the spiritual vigor and simplicity of 14th-and 15th-Century Italian art, and they desired to practice Ruskin's thesis-that esthetic reverence for nature must keep pace with scientific exploitation of her. Their enemies were two: the muddy-handed ghosts of Raphael-devotees of "The Grand Manner" -who were darkening the academies of England with fuzzy fifth carbons of the Master; and also the sooty-haired Samson of British industrialization, which threatened to flatten their walled gardens...
Call Me Mister slows down here & there to the dreamy pace of a sentimental journey-Joe, overseas, thinking of the corner drugstore; a trainload of returning servicemen chanting nevermore-to-roam, going-home blues. But mostly the show clatters briskly along, ribbing everything...