Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...family was there, waiting for them, when Harry Truman, hat in hand and carefully keeping pace with Mrs. Roosevelt, came through the garden entrance and took an enormous wreath of white gladioli from the leathery hands of an Army sergeant. Both the President and Mrs. Roosevelt raised their heads high as they turned and advanced to the white marble block where a small flag flapped over a cup of bright red tulips. The President bent slowly, and, with his left hand, placed the wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave...
Torby Ross, stroke of last year's informal team, continues to pace the varsity. Boat mates Bim Chandler, Lou Bohn, and Barry White all rowed for freshman crews before going into service...
...More men, more experience, and more goals are what we need," remarked Coach Bob Maddux after Saturday's lacrosse scrimmage with Tufts at Soldiers' Field. Showing flashes of form and teamwork, the Crimson team played a fast, hard-checking game but was unable to match the pace of the Tufts outfit, last year's New England champs...
...Washington last week the farm bloc started playing patty cake with parity again. The Russell-Pace rider to the minimum wage-increase bill was purely & simply a scheme for inflating the parity price formula by the addition of farm wages. To the farmer it would mean a solid 33% boost. March's parity wheat prices, for example, would be upped from $1.58 to $2.10; the nation's overhead food bill would go up $4.5 billions...
...Russell-Pace rider the farm bloc is busy at another battle-worn technique: adding new costs to the parity formula. In 1935 interest and taxes were grafted on, raising the cost side of the parity index from 125% to 130%. At that time no farmer wanted to include farm labor costs: it would have dropped the index four percentage points. Today it is another story; wages are on the up, and they can drag parity...