Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Valbuena Field at 2.39. . . . He had covered more than 2,000 miles in 27 hours, 15 minutes . . . from the crowd delirious shouts of joy . . . motorcycle police rushed toward the spot . . . Lindbergh was lifted upon the shoulders of his new Mexican admirers and placed into an automobile which began a slow trip to the Presidential stand. . . . The American hero seemed tired when he marched up to the President, but he was smiling happily. Speaking through an interpreter, President Calles assured him of Mexico's delight. . . . The greeting not entirely formal. The President grasped the flyer's hand warmly...
...Wistful Youth exits to slow music. The Memorial Hall clock strikes nine-thirty, which it never does in real life, but this is, after all, only a fairy tale...
Veteran addicts agreed the race was the most spectacular ever ridden in Manhattan. Necessarily slow hours of daytime and early morning riding were followed by wildest maelstroms every evening. Nearly every team in the ride led at one time or another. The winners were once five laps behind. The stunning swirl of darting, stumbling, riders that follows every attempt at a stolen lap was virtually continuous through the evening-hours when the crowd is thickest. 360 laps were stolen by the teams in six days; the old record...
Aftermath. Like most German importations, this one, effected by the Collwyn organization, enhances its drama with a slow and deliberate tempo, unfolds its story with a sombre and decisive insistence. In the remote and improbable province of Rupolosia among the barbaric villainies of a military governor, the ravages of his soldiery, and assorted chicaneries of minor characters, the widow Nadja struggles bravely to retain possession of her manor house- an edifice which, as depicted, does not justify her heroisms. In the part of this lady a new, highly able and presumably Russian actress is discovered to the U. S. screen...
...Moscow and achieved the foundation of his present eminence when he won the Russian National tournament in 1909. To him, chess is less a philosophy than a war. He imagines the chessmen as weapons, not as words; his play is marked from the beginning with a sort of slow-burning and intricate belligerence...