Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played from scratch, was hotly contested throughout but Harvard took a commanding lead in the first chukker and never relinquished it. It was in the first and third chukkers that the Crimson riders concentrated their attack, scoring four and one-half and five goals in these chukkers respectively. The pace was continually increasing during the game which was one of the best college polo exhibitions seen in New York. Credit is due the Yale riders who, because of illnesss of their own horses, were forced to play on borrowed mounts...
...theatrical activity at Harvard is to keep the pace set in other institutions some consistent encouragement must be given to an effort to work in the theatre from the ground up. Smooth renderings of the plays of other men, however much they may foster neglected art, cannot replace one benefits had when students roll us their sleeves and do the entire job themselves. Unless undergraduate drama at Harvard is to prove a sterile toying with colored lights and elaborate stage sets some permanent avenue must be opened for those who would do more than follow through the trappings...
Boris, already at the Capitol, knew when The Chief arrived by the yell that arose from the plaza. Mr. Coolidge went up the broad steps of the Senate wing at a quick, almost jaunty, pace. The Chief was slower, measured his stride more carefully. Once inside Mr. Coolidge walked around to the President's room, just off the Senate lobby, put his silk hat down on the green felt table top, sat down in an arm chair, signed many bills. His Cabinet stood about him, eager to be of last-minute assistance. When he had finished he motioned shut...
Following a most rapidly moving opening reel in which the scene shifts from an Indian reservation to a co-ed college and thence to a tribal village in Arizona in less than ten minutes, the picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...
...have never known a man who worked so hard. Then, too, he is one of the fastest walkers I know. It is extremely difficult to keep pace with him. All his movements are nervous...