Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article points out that professional football is advancing in popularity at a rapid pace...
...passing of the Yale game and the relapse of the college from the activity of the football season to a more leisurely pace, ushers in the plans for the annual PI Ettmusical comedy. The close of three different sport seasons, football, cross country, and soccer, has released all the men who might otherwise be barred from participation in the show, and promises to furnish the coaches with considerable talent in the way of athletic legs for the chorus and the pony ballet...
Said the Archbishop, Primate of all England: "Complaints of the inadequacy of our sermons on life and fact are beyond dispute . . . Sermons have not kept pace . . . with the increased intelligence, thoughtfulness and knowledge possessed by the average citizen . . . It is intolerable that we clergy should leave it to the daily newspapers or the popular novelist to give guidance and suggest sturdy thought . . . We need more midnight oil, more forenoon hours with closed doors, steady study, and big notebooks . . . The educated hearer not unnaturally resents . . . an easy thinness of thought...
...greatest wave of degeneracy and crime that has swept the world since the fall of the Roman Empire, and what is more, it is increasing at a staggering pace," thundered Dr. Straton. His statement he illustrated by statistics on murders, divorce cases, and pornographic periodicals perpetrated annually in this country alone...
Substitutions were frequently made in both combinations and the practice was run off at a livelier pace than has been the case heretofore, Coach Mitchell for the first time allowing the players to cut loose with their throws...