Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the tax investigation has commenced I have been informed that perhaps our bookkeeping systems have not kept pace with the growth of the business and it may be that some taxes are owing to the Government. . . . I have assured the Government that any taxes which are rightfully due it will be paid...
...Denmark the price level rose 111%. Breeders of livestock made money by selling meat to Germany and Austria in 1914, 1915 and 1916. Fodder shortages slashed production of butter and milk upon which a majority of the Danes live. Real wages in Copenhagen failed utterly to keep pace with the rising cost of living...
...preternatural bent to learn such things as walking, talking. These periods must be recognized by parents; the child must be allowed to take utmost advantage of them. Babies of 1½ years old, says she, can walk more than a mile if they are allowed to select their own pace. Other dicta...
...Cleveland star had only started to shine. For the rest of the game he held the crowd spellbound with his masterful control, his baffling change of pace. Not until the ninth inning did a National Leaguer get another hit. And that one Feller swiftly brought to naught by striking out Cardinal Mize and Cub Hack and winning the ball game for the American League...
...Similar speedups were also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace of one mile an hour...