Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City and its suburbs had the most wretched time of all. The people had just begun to stir feebly after a record 25.8 inch snowfall (TIME, Jan. 5) when the second storm hit. Fire-alarm boxes went out of whack. Transportation fell back to a medieval pace. Sixteen thousand houses in metropolitan New York and many thousands more in Westchester County and on Long Island were without heat. In ice-sheathed New Jersey a state of emergency was called, armories were thrown open to shelter the chilled citizenry, and children were ordered indoors because of the danger from broken...
...Vogel and Ed Palmieri, both Olympic candidates, the Jumbos dominated the running events, winning the dash, 600, mile, two-mile, and relay races Crimson captain Frank Gurley set the early pace in the 1000, yielded the lead and finally won by two step...
...selection of representative subject matter must still be largely arbitrary, and in the humanities any selection must omit important works. Even in the Natural Sciences, which are probably most suited to teaching the basic method and techniques of the field, the students have criticized many elements, including the pace of the courses, slow because of the assumption from the beginning, that students know nothing about the field of study...
Attack was the word all evening, Jack Lavelle making 28 saves in all and Revins 24. Play frequently went for minutes at a time without a whistle to keep up the fast pace. Only six penalties were doled out although the action was rough on both sides
...money in the bank and the world's best singers to pick from. But the first three weeks had passed with little but mediocre opera-and sometimes worse. In staging and pace, the Met still hadn't picked up any tips from its Broadway neighbors. The scenery was shabby: that was familiar. The singers couldn't act: that was nothing new. But worst of all, some of the singers couldn't even sing...