Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...solos are more spectacular than Jazzdrummer Gene Krupa's. With his whole band massed behind him, the Brigadier twirls his drumsticks faster & faster, whirls them over his head, down to his ankles throughout the number. He can catch his sticks at any beat he wants, change pace with offbeat effects, shade his tone from a crash to a whisper...
Slick-skimming Syracuse set the pace, followed by Navy, Cornell and Washington, the favorite. At the two-mile mark, when Syracuse had burned itself out, Washington's Huskies inched ahead. At the railroad bridge they were three-quarters of a length in front. But from behind came powerful, undefeated Cornell, pride of the East. Down the last mile, the Big Red crew pulled alongside the Huskies, rowed...
...also suggested that the Government candidate for President, General Manuel Avila Camacho, and his chief opponent, General Juan Andreu Almazán, join him in withdrawing their candidacies, thus leaving President Cárdenas in office for the duration of the "world danger." Unable to keep pace with Mexican politics, bewildered students in Mexico City put on a pointless series of riots. And at Hermosilla pre-flip-floppists took another shot at Candidate Almaz...
Last month two events quickened its pace. One was National Defense. As U. S. heavy industry began stirring from its ten-year sleep, many a holding company with arrearages on its preferred stock faced the problem of raising new money, building new generating capacity. The other was a new policy announced by SEC. In response to pleas from United Gas Improvement Co., Chairman Jerome Frank agreed that, instead of merely ruling on plans batted up by the bewildered companies, SEC would step to the plate and suggest plans for compliance itself...
...Leader, the Yale coach, over-stepped the usual limits of caution when recently brought up his Jayvee stroke to pace the Varsity eight. Crew is a sport in which the men practice together, but coach Leader took the chance of upsetting their smoothness in a last-minute attempt to improve the Eli first contingent...