Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these meetings, any time during the year, to find out about the kind of work that interests them. There is no danger of getting in for a long grind of errand-running and desk-sitting that takes every spare moment. Each man sets his own pace and does work of his own choosing. Members of the board help all they...
Foreign Minister' Hoare flew to London a clean-cut hero to most British voters, his more enthusiastic friends even suggesting that if he keeps up the pace he set last week he should crown his career one day by realizing his great ambition to become Prime Minister...
...less exciting on the screen than it was between book covers is due partly to the fact that its English producers fell down badly in the matter of sound recording and partly to the mistake of its U. S. director, J. Walter Ruben, in his apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time...
...early days of Depression a gold boom hit the mining States. It was followed by a silver boom which hit its proper pace this spring after Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau squeezed silver prices to a high of 81? per oz. (Depression low: 25?). Secretary Morgenthau has currently let the price slip to 68? but by law he must continue buying until either his silver stocks amount to 25% of his gold stocks or the price goes to $1.29 per oz., the more likely alternative...
...only to King Saxon (8 Ib.) but also to Top Row (16 Ib.), holder of the world's record for 1-1/16 mile, and because the Butler racetrack has sharp turns that King Saxon likes. For nearly a mile, as the crowd expected, King Saxon made the pace. Discovery, running under 132 Ib., caught him as he tired in the stretch, went on to pass Top Row and Only One, won by a comfortable length and a half, at odds of 9-to-10. The prize, $11,675, brought his total winnings...