Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judicious spots some of his arm-chair rather than word-desk writings. And there we found another difficulty at once. The book has two levels; one literary, one semi-journalistic, and we bounced around between the two for quite a time before we got used to the changes of pace. (There is a line mixed metaphor to serve as an opening for you, Chris...
...Specifications. He called a conference of industrial men in Washington prior to beginning work. The Dictionary is to help buyers throughout the country order standardized products and obtain exactly what they have in mind. It will be revised and reissued from time to time in order to keep pace with a advances in manufacture. By standardizing specifications Mr. Hoover estimates that the cost of many commodities can be reduced...
Ever since civilization began, science has thus kept pace with the evil effects arising from its development. The perfection of eye-glasses followed upon the introduction of the printing press, surgery was stimulated by the invention of gunpowder and artillery, and gas-masks appeared soon after the introduction of gas as a weapon of offence. But medical science has more than kept pace with disease. At a dinner of prominent physicians it was possible to state that the man of today can reasonably expect ten years more of life than the man of a century and a half...
...them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?a highly melodramatic plot to sugar-coat the pill?and, as usual with Mr. Hughes, the pace of the narrative carries the reader along. The Great American Novel still remains un-written?but Within These Walls will undoubtedly make a lavish and spectacular film...
...Reverend William Lawrence Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts: "I am 72 years old. I declared: 'Twenty years ago I helped to lead; ten years ago I thought I was keeping the pace; now I know that I am a back number...