Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surface, this weakness in first year marks can be attributed to one of two reasons: either the class of 1926 is more than usually slow in getting started in the way it should go, or else the "powers that be" have decided to institute an academic reign of terror for the ostensible purpose of encouraging higher grades and more serious devotedness to duty...
...never more important than today that college-trained men should have at least a general knowledge of the transportation business. Few may be attracted to it as a profession for although it is one of absorbing interest and unlimited opportunity for constructive service, progress is slow and the financial rewards are not alluring. But while the railroads need trained minds on their staffs it is equally essential that the men with trained minds in other industries and professions should have a clear understanding of the conditions under which the railroads of this country are operated...
...League is by far the greatest charitable organization that has ever existed on the face of the earth. No other, to cite one phase alone, has repatriated half a million prisoners of war! On its political side, it has prevented several wars, and is working towards disarmament by slow practical steps, to say nothing of having set up the first and only effective World Court...
...been a notable feature in the production if its filmsiness had not destroyed all the illusion And the dawn which Mr. Belasco made creep up imperceptibly, "came up like thunder", if not more so. In contrast with this hasty dawn, the thunderstorm in act two was realistic in its slow approach...
...usual aimless bromides, and bringing up the average to the standard now set by a few brilliant exceptions, or of going out of business entirely. Censorship will be hopelessly inadequate; the only effective substitute is now being applied by the huge moving picture public, on a massive, slow-but-sure scale...