Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprecedented novelty to terrified Kweichow were the Generalissimo's death-hurling U. S. bombing planes. Daily Chiang totaled up the kill-500 men, 2,000, then 5,000 as the pace of slaughter quickened; finally 7,000 slaughtered Chinese butchered in four days. As the Generalissimo's high-minded Nanking government pointed out. "the number of the slain is far less than those who die in a single provincial famine. There is only one way of dealing with Communists...
...Work Relief Bill past the House originally the President had to promise that Secretary Ickes would not have chief charge of spending the $4,880,000,000. Congress likes neither the slow pace at which the PW Administrator put out the $3,300,000,000 of the original Public Works appropriation nor his crusty attitude toward politicians seeking political favors. Mr. Ickes still battled in private for a hefty slice of the $4,880,000,000, but last week everything seemed to be going against him. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell took away his Soil Erosion Service...
...educational facilities, Adams House sets the pace for all the units of the plan. on its staff is the largest number of tutors of any house, and the staff covers the largest number of tutorial fields, having, for instance, the only available tutor in Sociology. The House library is particularly complete, and is especially strong, as is the tutorial staff, in the division of History, Government, and Economics...
...night wears on the pace grows slower, the curses quieter. The old man stumbles with exhaustion. "No, no, no," he whispers over and over again to himself, "It cannot be, it cannot be." And the idiot beside him mutters, "Yes, nuncle; yes, nuncle...
...selecting students for English 5, instructor wants more than a person who merely writes well. That qualification is understood. The applicant must be mentally mature enough to stand the pace, which, I must admit, often taxes the powers of this inadequate undergraduate brain. Richard C. Boys...