Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is another meeting of the Association, to which the classroom teachers cannot well go, being tied by their apron strings to the children of their communities. But the school superintendents can get off. In February they pack their bags, hold tryst, keep the Association going at its lively pace, and when they get home again make a speech telling the classroom teachers all about...
...cage on Soldiers Field when a large squad of diamond aspirants greeted Coach Mitchell for a short session of batting and infield practice. The University and Freshman pitchers and catchers are rapidly rounding into early season shape after two weeks work and should be able to keep pace with the remainder of the squad which was called out for the first time yesterday...
...very old drayhorse splashed through a puddle on a Boston street. As the water touched his hoofs, he seemed to be made young again. He put up his head, whinnied once or twice, and set off at a round pace with his coal-wagon. Had the water of the puddle been enchanted? Did he taste once more, in his gnarled nostrils, the clover-scented wind of youth...
...baseline. Then he ran to the net. Then he ran to the baseline. He was everywhere at once, returning the champion's perfect lobs, the champion's fierce drives, the champion's terrific smashes and cannonball serves with incredible accuracy and pace. The first set went to deuce, dragged on and on. The gallery smiled. Tilden knew what he was doing. He knew that Frenchmen, because of their way of living, have little stamina. He was tiring Borotra out. But strangely enough-after Borotra had won the first set 13-11-it was Tilden's great...
...they should not blind us to the fact that there is, as President Angell delouse a "retardation" which "inheres in the whole educational system from top to bottom." There would be comparatively little harm in waste of time if time were the only thing lost. But too slow a pace breeds habits of idleness, or, rather, prevents the formation of habits of work at the time when these habits can be most painlessly and fruitfully acquired...