Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Breathless in pace and implications was the swooping Balkan air tour last week of autocratic German Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, whom closest friends call "Willy." In Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Sofia and Budapest the Machiavellian doctor had fun insisting that he flew only to promote "economic peace." Just before he took off for Berlin, however, tactless Dr. Schacht could not resist blurting out what kind of economic peace he promotes. "Do creditor countries desire to renounce their claims against Germany?" he asked sharply. "If so they should say so, as Germany must either be allowed to earn...
...mile race, a filler on the program, Lash took the lead in the first lap, set a blistering pace of 62.9 for the quarter. When he turned the mile in 4:26.9, faster than Nurmi's first mile in either of his records, the crowd glued its eyes to the huge seconds clock at the end of the stadium. After five laps, Norman Bright, accepted U. S. record holder, last of the field to try to keep up with the leader, dropped back and it was a race between Lash and the stopwatch...
...electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed the Institute of Radio Engineers that some waves had been detected jogging along with less than half their theoretical velocity, at speeds...
...meet the demand. Since 1933 demand for trailers has at least trebled every year. Last year there were some 250,000 on U. S. highways. Last week Covered Wagon Co. of Mt. Clemens, Mich., largest manufacturer in the business, doubled the size of its paint shop to keep pace with a production schedule up 600% over last year. Covered Wagon is still unable to fill more than one out of five orders. According to the most conservative trailer men, there will be a U. S. market of at least 400,000 units a year...
...crack dirt-track driver named Doc Mackenzie to drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead...