Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pace is hot and the need is urgent...
...Swagman: hobo; billabong: waterhole; jumbuck: sheep; tuckerbag: food bag; squatter: sheep rancher; waltzing Matilda: hobos' affectionate name for their bag (bundle with blanket, tin cup, etc.) as it dangles from their shoulders and jounces with their pace...
Last week, as 1940 corporation earnings reports came out, Wall Street's judgment proved correct on one score: Profits were not keeping pace with production. To steelmakers and railroads, whose heavy capitalizations give them an advantage under the excess-profits tax, 1940 was a banner year (TIME, Feb. 10). But many a consumer industry found it a year of record sales, record costs, record taxes, and only moderate profits...
Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...
Columbia, the surprise team of the league, is now only half a game behind the pace-setting Indians by dint of victories over Pennsylvania and Princeton. The Big Green will have a chance to prove its superiority this Saturday when it plays host to the Lions in what may be termed the week's most crucial engagement...