Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jayvee race was perhaps the most exciting of the afternoon's thrilling program. Harvard's strong boatload, stroked by Colt Wagner, set off at a furious pace but found itself unable to get ahead of either Syracuse or M.I.T. until the final sprint...
...reasons for this symphonic era are not far to seek. They lie, quite naturally, in the character of modern civilization, and its mechanized, accelerated tempo. Symphonic music means variety, and change of pace; volume, and diversity of tone color; filled with a potent appeal for the man who wakes up to the sooth sweetness of electric drills, and ends the day with one ear glued to a radio that blares. Even the programs of symphonic concerts, in their limitations, echo this love for the loud and violent. They are filled with music of an aggressive character, with strong rhythms...
...whole new style in automobile streamlining. Today, a consultant on everything from railroad coaches to pickle bottles, Walter Dorwin Teague is one of the half-dozen crack U. S. industrial designers. In his Clinton, N. J. farmhouse, Designer Teague gives himself a change of pace with early-American furniture...
...type of goods to be hauled, Fruehauf earned a ride behind the cab of the zooming motortruck industry, became the Fisher of highway hauling. Building some 30 standardized types from two to 50 tons (priced from about $600 to $3,000), Fruehauf has set the industry's technological pace, makes 40% of all U. S. commercial trailers today...
...poor Sunday best, in squatters' camps by roadsides, private camps on big farms. U.S. Government camps and a Federal cooperative farm. "My, ain't they nice!" said a migrant wife at Visalia, admiring Mrs. Roosevelt's manicure hands (see cut). " A fine lady," said Mrs. W.N. Pace. "She's nice looking, too-just as homey...