Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growth of cities was a slow change, once. Generations lived and died and the wolves looked down from the hills at night, at the closed gates of the city and its lighted houses or dark streets. Armies rode out and returned, victorious or defeated; plagues descended, disappeared; a king died or a traveler came from far away; gods were discovered and forgotten and the people in the city lived in the same houses, the wolves still stood on the hills at night, looking at the same city, the same walls. Cities are built more quickly now, without walls, in places...
...sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible to measure the poison liberated by the various irritants. But by combining the technique of pharmacology, immunology and bacteriology and working from a chemical viewpoint, slow progress to discovery is being made, said former Dean Arthur I. Kendall of Northwestern University Medical School. Serums are proving useful...
...continued to win the field events and lose the track events, with few exceptions. "Our boys are overtrained; the Amsterdam track is slow," said U. S. coaches. The London Evening Standard seized upon this situation, an opportunity to run a story attributing the sad plight of U. S. runners to the eating of too much ice cream...
...considered an Empire emergency. . . . His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will continue the policy of loan enabling any British workman to emigrate to the Dominions, providing that he has been assured a job there. . . . But something more is needed. Remember that it was not by a slow, restricted process of immigration, confined to guaranteed employment, that the Dominions were founded and began their splendid history. . . . Our British workpeople . . . who want to try their luck in the Dominions . . . want to use their skill in that spirit of adventure which stirred in the old pioneers. Yet the call for adventurers...
...Bergery," said the Prime Minister softly, with a slow, maddening smile, "I recognize the M. Bergery whom I knew on the Reparations Commission-always ready to distort the truth...