Word: paces
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With a prodigious birth rate and a declining death rate, Puerto Rico's one-crop sugar economy cannot keep pace with its population, which is increasing at a rate unequaled anywhere else in the world. The average Puerto Rican earned only $14 a week. In New York, he could confidently expect to double his wages. Some dreamed of their children becoming doctors, lawyers, nurses. In the bucket seats of a DC-3, passage was only...
Citation broke fast, with Brooks giving him a crack of the bat as he came out of the gate-the first time Citation had ever been whipped away from the post. But it was Bolero that set the pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
Most serious failure is the sluggish pace in recruiting a Viet Nam army. Bao Dai's government has thus far assembled only four battalions, about...
...that far from being in conflict, teaching and research are necessary complements. As Buck puts it, "Research keeps a subject alive. It rejuvenates the researcher." And Jordan continues, "It may even be suggested that a college teacher must continue with his research and writing, though perhaps at a modest pace, if the wellsprings of his inspiration as a teacher...
Away from his desk, Tom Braniff is a placid, easygoing man who plays a leisurely game of golf (he bets more skillfully than he plays), takes off on hunting trips, and at Christmas dresses up as Santa Claus for the children of his 2,401 employees. But the leisurely pace never gets into his business operations. He has applied for additional routes inside & outside the U.S. (e.g., from Havana to Washington and New York). Says he: "All my life I've wanted to see a little farther over the horizon, and the horizon keeps getting farther away...