Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when the legitimate business of Government cannot be carried on at a less expenditure than that which it now requires. With regard to our legitimate business the operating costs have been reduced to nearly a minimum. The normal expansion of the business of the Government in keeping pace with a growing nation will involve added expenditure from year to year...
...moment lightweight champion of the world. He had just socked Rocky Kansas, challenger, flush on the button. It was the middle of the second round. Throughout the first, Rocky (a hairy 133-pound bullyboy, battered and be-cauliflowered by innumerable brawls) had come plunging in at a pace that would surely be impossible for him to keep up for 15 rounds. Goodrich waited his chance. Kansas was standing off to loop a left to the head, when he sent across his sock. Wham! With all the leverage of his springy body behind it, his right fist encountered the other...
...none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse and cart out of the ditch. Finally he climbed back into his damaged car, which was coaxed by the chauffeur at a walking pace to Amershal. There the Baldwins caught the first train for London, arriving only a few minutes behind their original schedule...
When the short service within the church was concluded, ten tall Coldstream Guardsmen bore the coffin on their shoulders to the gun carriage; and it was drawn at a walking pace to Wolferton Station, two miles away, where a funeral train waited to carry it to London...
...gridiron warfare was considered exclusively an occupation for colleges and universities. Within recent years, however, the game has been organized on a professional basis and its spread has been so extensive that it may at present be regarded as a regularly established professional fall sport. Should its present pace be continued, and if the management of the new venture remains in capable and honest hands, an organization rivalling that of the baseball league may well be expected before the end of the present decade...