Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...America proposes to scrap those too. These figures are rough, but they serve to show to what extent America is willing to sacrifice the certain advantage she would have if the competition were to continue. Now the experts have been examining these figures. That means an immense and necessarily slow labor. So far there has been no denial of their accuracy on the basis proposed. There has been raised, though not officially by any delegation, the question whether this ratio is sufficient for national needs. That of course changes the basis of the whole proposal. As soon as notional needs...
Professor Taussing went on to say that since the modern faculty of organization has brought about the mobilization of the ultimate resources of a nation for a war, recovery after a war is very slow, even if a collapse does not occur. Among other things Professor Taussing pointed out the mistaken belief that territorial gains or trading rights are able to compensate for the expense of a war. "No possible gains of this kind," he said, "can amount to five per cent of the cost to a nation of a war as it is waged...
This record of the life of the author of "Jean-Christophe", reminds one of nothing so much as Hugh Walpole's "Fortitude". But the slow recognition given Rolland was perhaps the best thing for him. It allowed his genius to mature and broaden without the limitations imposed by immediate fame. It gave to him the quiet of his study where unmolested he could write his great novel, "Jean-Christophe". In the "orbus pictus of our generation", Rolland wrote an unclassifiable book. He himself said "Any work which can be circumscribed by a definition is a dead work". "Jean-Christophe", which...
...front. They don't care. Some one will always read the results aloud, just as a woman will read aloud the cut-ins at the movies. The one who is doing the reading usually throws in little advance predictions of his own when the news is slow in coming, with the result that those in the back get the impression that the team has at least a "varied attack," effecting at times a field goal and a forward pass in the same play...
...termed anything very exceptional. Certainly it is free from the taint of being "highbrow" which is so often associated with the name of Harvard, and a well-filled house received with apparent enjoyment the oft repeated walling of "mamma", who is a "sentimental hypochrondiac". The first act is slow, the second good, the third excellent. If we admit that a prize play may have acts of such unequal strength, undoubtedly this is the proper sequence in which to place them...