Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hopeful Britons conjectured that the pace was beginning to tell, that the supplies of lubricating oil, explosives and metal might be thinning faster than the Germans wished (no one thought they were running out, however). But the main reason was another of the periodic changes in German tactics...
...Says he: "We think it is cute here to have an accent, but not the French." Too Many Girls (RKO Radio) is Broadway Producer-Director George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some of Hollywood's abler and less familiar talent...
Expansion. "Christianity was built into the structure of the new nations which emerged from the migration of Europeans, and it was carried to people who previously had been professedly nonChristian. . . . In the U. S. Christianity had sufficient life more than to keep pace with the phenomenal growth of the white population and to attract as well about half of the previously non-Christian Negroes and Indians...
...Indiana State champion at the 100-yd. dash and 220-yd low hurdles. On the football field, he is fast as a jack rabbit. His speed, and his uncanny sense of anticipation, a formidable straight arm, powerful leg drive that shakes off tacklers like tenpins, a confounding change of pace and rumba hips, make a Harmon touchdown run a memorable performance. In addition to his ball-carrying talents, he is a better-than-average blocker, passer, punter, placekicker, quick-kicker and kickoff...
Martin Dies was an easy mark. As his higher political education kept pace with the discoveries of his investigators, he was apt to vent his amazement in admonitory yawps, often before he had documentation or complete details...