Word: paces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shells and eights of varying size take to the trugid waters of the Quinnipiac where the Quinniplac flows down to the sea. The number of men competing in the Regatta is extraordinary; a few years back would have been undreamed of. Increase of interest in rowing has kept pace, or stroke, with the soaring interest spreading throughout the University in all types of sport. It is but one manifestation of the results of the much-talked-of athletics for all policy; a policy which has been developing day by day with results that are only beginning to be appreciated. What...
...playwright knows that the most difficult part of play writing is to prevent the last act from falling flat. After traveling through the first two acts at a fast pace, it is hard to hold that pace until the end. Moreover, if the first two acts are well constructed, they should force a fairly inevitable conclusion. With a public like the American people, fed from its infancy on news, it is difficult to inspire interest in the inevitable...
...seriously that they are not expected to recover. The car then left the pier, drove along the high-road past the Queenstown Yacht Club where the assassins trained the gun on the British destroyer Scythe. They fired but inflicted no casualties, and disappeared driving towards Rushbrooke at a furious pace. In Queenstown it was thought that the assassins were mutineers, as they shouted "Up Tobin!"* as they left the town. General O'Duffy, Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, ordered an investigation. President Cosgrave of the Executive Council telegraphed London to express his horror at the murdeous...
...outdoor exercises that Harvard's facilities are particularly well adapted. A swimming pool would be a great boon here, and added space for basketball. While your gymnasium was really the first modern building of its kind, it has not kept pace with the rapid growth of the University, and is by no means adequate for the present demand...
...formal where the Englishman is personal. The present critic is correct, also, in his analysis. With the departure of the toddy-bowl and the clay pipe has gone the American student's tendency to foregather of evenings, and talk endlessly of shoes and ships and sealing-wax. And the pace is possibly faster in the American University than at Oxford or Cambridge...