Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mighty Hunter. On the plains of Manitoba, the sickly youth grew to be a young giant. His normal walking pace was a killing five miles an hour. Then, on the high plains of New Mexico, he became a celebrated wolf hunter-in the tradition of one of his ancestors, Evan Cameron, whom he called "The mighty wolf hunter of the North." His first popular books (Wild Animals I Have Known and The Biography of a Grizzly) sold hundreds of thousands of copies among captivated readers on both sides of the Atlantic...
There is no doubt, Mclntire insists, that the President undertook his last two terms because he was convinced that his country needed him, and that he scorned to conserve his own vitality by cutting down on his killing pace...
Hamlet Harlow must needs pace in the pendulous air the Yard these autumnal nights, the Yard where many of the ancient trees have donned Fair Harvard's Crimson, though perchance by chance. The bloody leaves may have heard this pigskin Hamlet soliloquist somewhat as follows...
...Duchess could be far more impressive on the stage than it ever seemed last week. Even with Poet Auden's cuts* the play had, perhaps, to be slow of pace. But it did not have to be so barren of atmosphere or thin of texture. Nor need it have been acted, and frequently overacted, in so many manners with so little style. Only Elisabeth Bergner as the Duchess played with anything like stature. Passable in an important role, and using whiteface, was Negro Actor Canada...
With only five class-packed days in which to get three sweat-packed athletic credits, the Harvard Freshman is hard put to find time for both studies and sports. Unable to accommodate a grueling scholastic pace to a time consuming P. T. schedule, the new student is often faced with the unhappy choice of taking either the frying part or the fire, and discovers that the wrath of the Freshman Dean is just as uncomfortable as the displeasure of our steelsinewed Athletic Department...