Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside the meaning spoken of it has a political significance...
...decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone down to eighteen years and ten months. The fall is very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time the freshman seventeen years...
...inclined to rush out on his slide so fast that he has to wait at full reach, thus making a distinct hang. Jennings at No. 4 has lately changed from the starboard to the port side of the boat, but this would hardly account for his lifelessness and evident slowness of movement which breaks up the time of the four bow men. Manning at No. 2 is also slow and exhibits a painfully weak effort with his legs...
...Irrigation to be successful must be by the United States: Sec. Noble's Report, 1890, 641. - (a) It must be on a very large scale: Powell, 48. - (b) Return from the investment, although sure, is very slow at first: Wilson, 410-18. - (c) It has to wait for immigration to fill up the irrigated land: Wilson...
Every man will have one Chinaman assigned to him, for whom he is solely responsible. The teaching is slow and sometime tedious in spite of the interest shown by the pupil and needs a patient teacher who will make it a point not to miss a single meeting. But when the apparently dull pupil has once mastered the elements of the language, then the progress is rapid, the Chinaman soon takes up the Bible, and well prepared by patient love of his teacher, he is readily led to grasp the truths of the Christian religion...