Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relate to the progress of mankind, without careful examination. He advised students to devote a large part of their time to the study of the past more particularly the past of America, for by doing so they will discover two things. First, that progress in America has always been slow and steady rather than spasmodic: second that progress has always been gained not by theory but by practice. Thus, when they look to the future, they will see that the best way to proceed is step by step, and that the only way to proceed is by things done...
...pleasant omen for the future has already attended the preparations of the "47 Workshop" for its premier trip "on the road": the New York performances have been moved to a larger theatre in order to accommodate the unexpectedly large patronage. The dramatic world has not been slow in realizing the value of Professor Baker's work in establishing the experimental theatre in America, and it eagerly awaits the coming production...
...result of the first week of firing on the new pistol range at Waverly, fourteen students of the R. O. T. C. have made scores of 70 percent or over. The shooting so far has been 15 yards slow and time fire and 25 yards slow fire...
Daily improvement us shown in the ability of the Freshman baseball squad, and especially of the pitchers. Speed, slow-ball pitching, and good head-work have been plainly evident in the short practice games, but the greatest cause for optimism is the fact that there are several men who promise to be above the average of mounds men, rather than only...
...which the environment would not be unnatural to him; In Samson and Delilah he found such a play, from curtain rise to curtain fall it is imbued with the spirit of the Slav. In its frequent, terribly effective appeals to the stage; in its lack of sentiment and its slow, careful development of the plot, it is distinctly the vehicle...