Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look, for a time, as if the ticket were far wrong. From November, 1919, to May, 1920. Lowden's candidacy gained ground at an impressive pace. Delegates were lined up. Alliances were formed. The campaign had money, organization, and the bright prospect of success to drive it on. By the middle of May Lowden had the promise of more than two hundred delegates on the third ballot, with only Leonard Wood apparently capable of giving him a battle...
...Dolly Sisters (2) set the pace of fortune by announcing that they had won a total of $820,000 during the present season of baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera. During the week King Christian X of Denmark, now at Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years...
Last week rubber bounded-down, down. At the Rubber Exchange there was pandemonium in miniature likeness of the Stock Exchange. Rubber dropped to new low records for the history of the two-year-old exchange. Trading was in tremendous volume, pace of execution was terrific, collars wilted and voices hoarsened for the first time in the life of the New York rubber broker. Brokers sold 20,277½ long tons in 8,111 contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible...
...parents whose sons are prepared for college and pass their admission examination at 17, postpone their entrance for a year. This is almost always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this is in part due to the fact that they are the brighter and more industrious boys, for that...
...play only begins with them. The laurels are all Miss Eagels'. Throughout the three acts--and she is on the stage practically all the time--she is cold or capricious or coy with a change of pace and a never-failing charm that causes a continuous accompaniment of laughter from the audience...