Word: paces
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dartmouth beat Radcliffe by just three seconds in the 2,000-meter race, with Syracuse finishing 10 seconds off of Dartmouth's pace...
...women's tennis team competed in its own version of a marathon this weekend, playing three matches in three days. The Crimson (12-8, 6-0 Ivy) burst out of the starting gate with a 7-0 win over Brown, Friday afternoon at Providence, R.I., and picked up the pace across the middle stages with a 6-1 win over Yale Saturday at New Haven. Harvard 7 Brown 0 Harvard 6 Yale 1 W&M 7 Harvard...
...finally got a major evacuation going out of the giant Tan Son Nhut air base just outside the capital. Even in early April, Smith's operation was moving out 500 people a day. April 20, says Smith, "was when we really started to pick up the pace and started moving people out." That was the date when simplified paperwork rules for departure went into effect--and two days before embassy officials tried to arrest Rosenblatt and Johnstone for attempting to do unofficially exactly what General Smith was doing officially...
...push it to 5000. Old-timers in the market can remember the Dow bumping up against 1000 for 11 years, but lately it's made a brisk ascent: 2000 in 1987, 3000 in 1991 and 4000 in 1995, gaining 1,000 points every 1,400 days. At this pace, it will reach 5000 sometime around the turn of the century...
...narration proceeds at a leisurely pace, as Marler recounts one non-earth-shaking episode after another: a failed date, a concert, his studies. The climax of the play is the day of his exam; Marler cleverly intertwines his own anxiety with a radio documentary about Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, finding inspiration in Kennedy's growing resolve. We even get to hear some of what Marler said during his exam, recited while a passage from The Four Seasons is played...