Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tech and the U.B.C. dropped to 28 after their opening sprints and battled it out at that pace all the way up the middle, with the Engineers holding a slight edge...
Alumnus Lane Barton pushed the pace up to 36 for the final sprint, and almost succeeded in pulling back Tech, but his boat lacked the drive to overtake them before reaching the finish line at Long-fellow Bridge...
...sulky in front of which the moose was to become the swiftest beast for miles around and a pleasure for all to behold. But it soon became evident that there are certain obstacles to be overcome in the training for harness of every young moose. For one thing, moose pace, and nothing can be done about it. It would neither walk nor trot but only pace...
Norval, assigned to set the pace for his stablemates, broke clear at once and led all the way to the final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...
...incongruities," characters and situations refuse to act predictably: a sad-eyed suicide breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...