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...incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken the tempo...
...Michael's Street, in Gothic buildings as sizable as one side of a college quadrangle. The great hall's gallery, officers' dais, and rows of facing benches recall the House of Commons scene as sharply as its casually businesslike, irrelevantly witty proceedings recall the Commons' tempo and temper...
Washing several thousand towels a day is a common occurrence in the daily University wash. Operating 24 hours a day with a crew of four men, the Field House laundry has had to step up its tempo to meet the increased towel demand brought about by the accelerated physical training program. Even during the past year, after the conditioning program had started, the increase has been parked. From July 1942 to July 1943 402,700 towels were washed, as compared to 331,625 during the previous year...
...deliberateness, digression and slow tempo are more marked in Joseph the Provider than in the previous volumes. It is the most difficult reading of all the Joseph books. Much of Joseph the Provider is given over to recapitulations of parts of the earlier books, with Author Mann's discussions of the manifold meanings of the incidents, the legends, and the motives of the characters...
...ship was gently pitching when we made the landfall on Japan. We hooked on our flak suits, adjusted our helmets and got into position for the bomb-run. Pilot Root increased the tempo of his gum-chewing. The copilot settled himself solidly in his seat, the engineer edged forward, his eyes glued to the instruments. The navigator, Lieut. James Stanley, checked and rechecked our position...