Word: paces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brandell felt that, despite the economic and political advances brought in integration, cultural changes have not kept pace. He doubted the value of cultural integration, and averred that Continental diversity has great value...
...hostile rock throwers; Hoyte and Jumbo had only to ward off playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...
...indeed. Last year in their first season in California the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants finished twelve games off the pace in third place, and the Los Angeles (ex-Brooklyn) Dodgers wound up 21 games behind in seventh. This year the Giants and the Dodgers are chasing a pennant-and catching customers-with all the fire they flashed back at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field...
...every American right in the breadbasket, just when a rise in the cost of living (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was hitting him in the pocket. Prices of beef will slip 5% to 10% in the next few months, and prices of fruits and vegetables will also drop, perhaps enough to pace a dip in the consumer price index...
Selected in every case after the keenest competition (the Florida State group, picked from 5,000 applicants, had a median IQ of 138), the seniors get no credit, in some cases not even exams. But the pace is such that Cooper Union President Edwin S. Burdell, a sociologist, walked out of a class last fortnight, saying: "It's over my head." Said Northwestern's lanky Timothy Brown, 16, who comes from Lexington, Neb.: "I only wish I could be five people so I could take it all in." The thing all the youngsters like best is the grown...