Word: tempos
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...inferior in phonetic value to both "Harvard!" and "Yale!" But it is infinitely superior to the pinched-up and vocally inexpressive "Princeton!" I am inclined to think that the best tonal effect will be secured by avoiding the repetition of the word (Nassau), particularly if the tempo be a rapid one. Use a single "Nassau" at the end of the cheer, thus: "Nassau!" Note that the explosive accent is on the final syllable, the vocalization fairly well drawn out, and a very open vowel sound given to the second half of the word. Compare the concluding line of our college...
WRITTEN in the leisurely tempo of the epoch which is its setting, "The Singing Swan" brings another character of Doctor Johnson's time to modern literature. Anna Seward, poetess, romanticist, and the woman who dared to beard the dean of English lexicographers to his face, finds kind if at times somewhat detailed treatment at the hands of her biographer, Margaret Ashmun...
...Ordinary workers of any color may hope in Russia to receive boundless benefits eventually, but today they do receive: 1) wages in rubles officially worth sic which will actually buy about what gc will buy in the U. S.; 2) employment at the extreme high tempo of the Five-Year Plan, calling for greatest possible exertion by every worker: 3) cards entitling the worker to buy at Government monopoly stores, if willing to stand for hours in line...
...series of writhings and twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...
...lessen the tempo means to fall behind?and backward we are beaten. We do not want to be beaten. The whole history of old Russia amounted to repeated beatings because of its backwardness...