Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning of October in order to join the football coaching staff but delays in his rail trip back to Cape Town from Portuguese East Africa held him up. He stated that the transportation from Cape Town up the East Coast, a distance of 2000 miles, was so slow and primitively organized as to preclude his remaining with his brother more than a week. The rest of the summer was spent on route...
...novels number 82. Two are to be published posthumously. She was not a slow and painstaking writer, stringing her words like gems through hours of precious toil. She allowed twenty chapters to a novel, wrote a chapter a day.* Her themes never varied. They always had to do with love?fervid, magnificent love. Her exemplary heroes and heroines she invariably nursed benevolently to a final altar?at least to an engagement ring. They might always be presumed to live happily ever after...
Special motion picture attractions in the form of four separate pictures will be shown at the Harvard Union on the night of November 4, it was announced by-the Union. The pictures will consist of "Gridiron Glory", a football picture in fast and slow motion; "Taking a Chance", hazardous moments from all forms of sport both in fast and slow motion; "Three Foolish Weeks", a burlesque on Eleanor Glynn's famous story, with Ben Turpin as the fair-haired hero; and an "Aesop Fable", an animated cartoon by Paul Terry...
College obligations are not slow to gather momentum during the first days of the term, and toward the end of the first month the average undergraduate finds himself swamped. In the midst of his complexities came, heretofore, the November hours. Many a capable man finds it impossible to hit his stride in the beginning, and can only fall into it gradually. Once having found it, however, he can hold the pace. It is largely in the interest of these men that the ruling was revised, since it was thought unfair to subject them to disciplinary action upon such inconclusive evidence...
Though to Miss Ediss as Maggie Wylie belonged the honors of the evening, perhaps the best work was done by Mr. Clive, Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Hulse as the three brothers. Though slow in getting started, Mr. Buckler as the dunder-headed hero finished well. But Miss Standing, the noble damsel who enchanted Mr. Shand was not too enchanting. One wondered--but, Havers! Havers