Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor Minister Ernest Bevin admitted: "We are behind with our airdromes and some of our factories." Onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, who would undoubtedly like to be Prime Minister himself, declared: "Productivity in factories and docks is falling at an alarming rate. . . . The tempo of our effort cannot be considered adequate when five months have to elapse between the fire of London and the outlining of a scheme for the coordination of the fire brigades...
...means immediately or even ultimately available. While shipowners speculated on what effect the order would have on them, the Commission made its first move, called tanker operators to Washington, asked for 25 vessels immediately, 25 in the near future. Said the New York Post: "This is something like the tempo which the nation wishes...
Puerto Rico was not the only place short of men and arms. General Collins will doubtless try to get arms and equipment for his men, but only the War Department and the General Staff in Washington can step up the quality and tempo of planning for Puerto Rico. Until that is done, the Army will have only an eggshell Gibraltar in Puerto Rico...
...dead as to make the set very unpleasant. In the Walter recording, by Columbia, on the other hand, the tone is full and rich. And while the performance is fairly conventional, it does not surge ahead the way Toscanini's does. Except for an annoying slackness in the tempo of the scherzo, it is first-rate, making this...
...have put in a good word with Lenin. Back in Petrograd teaching again, on precarious academic tenure, he found it impossible to indoctrinate the sons of the proletariat with the first principles of sociology. He contrived to get himself banished from Russia in 1923, and from then on the tempo of the Sorokin drama relaxed. A short term of lecturing in Prague, then on to America. Professor at the University of Minnesota until 1930, and at Harvard since then...