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...these technical barriers the evening was a success. Director Mary Howe used the stage to good advantage, although her actors seemed once or twice to move almost as in a rigid pattern. A slow opening scene was quickly erased by the arrival of the play's comies, and a tempo more conducive to holding a light mood was maintained through the remainder of the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

...tempo of play increased as Dave Key threatened twice, but then the Eagles got a free shot when Wally Sears drew one of Harvards six penalties while breaking up a play. Defenseman "Butch" Songin teed off at the goal, but Lavalle nonchalantly caught it and tossed it aside...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Sextet Humbles Favored Boston College, 4 to 3, As Barclay's Quintet Subdues Engineers, 57-46 | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

With opening day of the 1947-48 Crimson basketball campaign only five days off, coach Bill Barclay has pared his Varsity squad to 12 men and steadily increased the daily practice tempo in preparation for the MIT quintet next Wednesday on the Engineers' home court...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Basketball Opener with MIT Nears | 11/29/1947 | See Source »

When the scrimmage ceased, Harlow and assistant kept up the tempo with signal drills, kicking under pressure and forward pass offense and defense and toward the end of the afternoon people in the enclosed practice arena started smiling for the first time in weeks...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Harlow Preps Varsity in 45 Minute Grind | 11/12/1947 | See Source »

Gone was the midsummer's nightmare in which it had somnambled into the convertibility crisis. Gone was the comatose paralysis of a Government which had collected unprecedented powers, but which could not collect its wits for leadership. The tempo of life and work has quickened. Factory managers reported that their employees were "really getting down to it." Even the Tory party, which since its crushing defeat of 1945 had been the most torpid segment of the British scene, suddenly came sufficiently alive to win an election. Just 24 hours before the votes were counted, a TIME correspondent in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Government by Governess | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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