Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...records in the quarter mile and in the 880-yard relay race featured the meet last spring, and the pace of 51 seconds for the quarter sot by Smith of Brookline High and the time 1 minute 35 seconds for the half made by the Dorchester team, show that the standards set by the quality of last years competition are high. A to 2-5 second run in the 100 made by Trull of Lowell and a broad jump 20 feet 7 inches by Cregas of Brockton were also outstanding performances in last year's meet
...week end in Philadelphia, taking part in the American Henley. The Crimson lightweights may put up a close race, for the defeat they suffered Saturday was not a bad one. DeNormandie was stroking his first race, and the crew, which kept up well for about a mile, found the pace a bit too hot near the finish. The eight should do better at Philadelphia...
...deny that the towering pretensions of classicism had been fulfilled. On the vast stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, amid architecture massively austere, Miss Anglin, nobly ominous in black, was supported by a company sharing her earnestness and schooled by her to simplicity of gesture and the slow pace of portentous happenings. Their execution fell short of hers? Michael Strange (Mrs. John Barrymore) slipping sometimes into picayune realism in the role of Chrysothemis, Ruth Holt Boucicault being a trifle shallow as foul Clytemnestra. But lack of preparation was their ample excuse. That their few flaws would soon be remedied seemed...
Edinburgh policemen in turn had their grievances against Talker Flockhart. Frequently they had to carry him to the stationhouse. A diminutive man, he could not keep pace with them. In the station-house he would invariably transfix the officers with his strange eyes, and recite Scriptures to them. Often they threw him out of their presence; and that hurt those Scotsmen dreadfully. Manhandling the wight was like tearing a page from the Bible...
...battery, much has already been said. To be brief, it has everything--speed, curves, a change of pace, a drop, a fadeaway. The baseball management will supply it with gloves, a mask and a chest protector. What more could a battery want?SNAPPED IN AN INFORMAL POSE DURING FIGHT TALK MANAGER OF CRIMSON TEAM...