Word: tempoed
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...invited 150 $10,000-men (citizens eligible to $10,000 in credit)-and most of them played until dawn, side by side with hordes of silver-dollar bettors. And that was not the end of the excitement. The hotel stayed jammed, the play kept on at a rising tempo night after night and at week's end rose spectacularly higher...
Getting a three-year-old tuned up for the Kentucky Derby is a delicate matter of training and timing. Some trainers hold that the proper pitch is achieved by winter racing in Florida or California; others favor a slower tempo, try to bring the horse to quick Derby peak in the April prep races. Last week Trainer Syl Veitch, who handles horses for C. V. ("Sonny") Whitney, made the gradual approach look impressive...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...
Radioactive fading, explain the doctors, slows down the tempo of the body by reducing the amount of thyroxin secreted from the thyroid gland. The work load on the heart is thus reduced...
...hard-fought game all the way, increasing in tempo to a furious final 45 seconds when the undermanned Yardlings held off a sustained attack by six Blue forwards...