Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game started at a slow pace, the first quarter being marked by numerous fouls and rough play. Unaccustomed to passing on a large floor, the Harvard team was balked at every play by the Milton five, which kept the Crimson on the defensive from the start...
...ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything except the growth and decay of empires...
...game started at a fast pace the Middlebury team falling into the defensive tactics that it maintained for a great part of the game. Harvard's attack broke through this defense several times to score, ringing up a total of 22 points by the end of the first period, while the Middlebury outfit having little difficulty in scoring, once it got the ball, shot a total of 21. Throughout the game, Harvard's play was characterized by a strong driving attack, and a weak, unorganized defense...
Frank Sullivan set the pace for the short-story writers with one entitled "The Cub Reporter, or The Scoop, or A Slice of Life, or Zaza...
...four horns came back with him to the U. S. to make their debuts with the Philharmonic. ... On he goes, swinging his cane, past a cafe door where trombones are moaning measures of La Maxixe. On he goes, past a cathedral, or perhaps the Grand Palais, slackens his pace a bit, then passes by on the other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away...