Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow-footed Borah insisted on phrasing the Prohibition promise his own way. Farmers' Friends kept the convention waiting, and the platform-builders sleepless, with their vain insistence upon a different farm plank (see p. 15). In the end, Senator Smoot pumped all the breath he could into a document containing the following phrases...
...slow voice, a monster by itself, was amplified mechanically into a sonorous roar. A third of the grandstand seats were as yet unfilled. The shuffle of thousands of feet and the drone of thousands of excited conversations diminished slightly but by no means ceased. The voice paused a moment, and then intoned...
...Street of Sin. Basher Bill seizes an egg, bashes it against his own forehead, rips off the shell, swallows the nutritious portion whole. He grabs another, and another,-until he has consumed twelve (12) eggs. The eggs are hardboiled; so is Basher Bill as played by Emil ("Slow Motion") Jannings. Paramount's publicity man swears that Mr. Jannings actually ate those twelve eggs. Well, good for him; for there is little else to egg one on in The Street of Sin. Basher Bill lives in the slums of London with a blonde harlot who loves him. His occasional business...
...identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over petrie dish, Dr. Francis and six of his assistants were infected. They recovered, having learned more about the strange malady. It is a slow fever with all the attendant aches, pains, chills, prostration, incapacitating the victim for months. Before achieving the dignity of a disease with a name, it had often been confused with typhoid because the germ resembles typhoid bacillus. Since its recognition 430 cases have been reported, 18 deaths; only nine states...
...afternoon, the University crew paddled down to the three mile mark at a slow pace followed closely by Coach Brown in the "Black Pup" correcting the individual faults which were revealed in the four mile time trial last Saturday. On the return journey, Captain Watts did not lift the stroke above...