Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is fine. Anybody could have said it once; it takes a poet to repeat (cf. Poe's Ulalume, Swinburne's A Match, and many others). I knew your mad prose pace would get you; that somebody would rebel. Congratulations on a more leisurely tempo! The "Curt" of "Curt, Clear, Complete" has been dealt a mortal blow. Enter now the style rococo and redundant...
Victors in their last two league encounters, the Quakers will start Tony Mischo and Chuck Diven at the forwards, Swede Gustafson at center, and Captain Pace Brickley and Gerry Sneeders in the backcourt. Harvard's starters are slated to be Charley Lutz, Fred Heckel, Homer Peabody, Capt. Luplen and Sam (jitterbug) White...
Coach Wes Fesler leads a revamped squad into the hills of Hanover today to do battle with the Dartmouth Indians, pace-setters in the Eastern Intercollegiate League, in one of the toughest assignments the Crimson hoopmen will undertake this year...
Right winger Connie Morgan of the home forces contributed three unassisted goals to pace his mates in the scoring, and Al Browne tallied twice on solo dashes from his defence position. Captain Dem Lloyd led most of the Crimson drives and forays around the Exeter cage, but goalie Katzenback was not to be beaten...
Cutler apparently saved himself somewhat in the 220 because from the outset in the 440 it was obvious that he was not going to let the lack of competition stop him from cracking five minutes. He maintained a blistering pace and almost lapped the field in the quarter-mile grind. His winning time was 4:59.5, a mark which has not yet been beaten by any of the country's other top collegiate 440 men this year...