Word: tempo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tempo of this picture is fast and varied, and there are very few dull moments. What it lacks in smoothness of finish is made up for in its variety of action and swift comedy...
Yesterday's practice began at rather a sluggish tempo, comparatively speaking. Not that anyone was actually loafing, just that that certain spark which makes all the difference between a winning and losing ball club was missing. It might have been due to an early season let down, or the warm weather might have been to blame, but whatever the cause, the first dozen plays that team A ran against the third eleven in scrimmage failed to net ten yards...
...General Education Board to consider what needed to be done to restore reason and balance to modern juvenile life. They had learned that to the usual perplexities of adolescents in all times there had been added since the War new worries accompanying profound changes in the structure and tempo of society...
Meanwhile, in guarded fashion Moscow correspondents received from well-connected Russian friends last week hints that "our great leader Stalin, observing how machines wear out under the swift 'Bolshevik tempo' of our Five-Year Plans, has found that many of the human cogs have also been worn until they need replacement, and for this Stalin is wisely turning to our Youth...
...manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...