Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany and some other countries is printed under FOREIGN COUNTRIES, but to my surprise and disappointment nothing about India is ever seen.* India as you must know is a very ancient nation with an immense population and likely to grow into a very big nation. Being a dependent and slow moving nation little is known to the world about its movements and culture, habits, on the contrary sometimes the foreigners carry and propagate strange notions about this large country and its people. Hence I request to say that you will be doing justice to India and benefit to the whole...
...reconvenes, that afternoon, "there are speeches in reply to Litvinov. The Delegate of France, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, takes him softly and indulgently to task for disparaging and seeking to hurry the progress of the League toward Security: a goal deemed inseparable from Disarmament. "If our progress has been slow," says M. Paul-Boncour, "the real fault lies in a lack of 'the international spirit' throughout the World, which no one can remedy...
...inaudible and exciting music, the bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally...
...Student Council calls for the disbursement of the $12,000 pledged. Of this amount $5000 was collected during registration at the opening of College. The rest of the total was represented by promises of the students to pay their pledges before December 1. Returns have been very slow and unless the speed with which they are reaching the committee increases markedly, both the Student Council and the other organizations supported by the fund will be forced to carry on their activities under financial embarrassment...
...will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil and the Methodist Church to controvert the rights of American citizens; but one is permitted to wonder what statistics and horrible examples will be added to the phenomena of contemporary life in a pamphlet...