Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bronco buster, and further knows that he is needed as President of the United States. While I am a Democrat I have always admired Coolidge's Democracy (not political) and think he has made a wonderful President. Honest in everything. Self-seeking in nothing, perhaps a bit slow in making up his mind, which is not a bad fault. It makes the ordinary citizen rather tired to find people gunning for Coolidge when "Canivora" like big Bill Thompson are running at large. One a builder and a conservator, the other an obstructionist and destructionist...
...hasten the coming of a true revolution by the entire Chinese proletariat; 2) to withdraw support from Chinese revolutionary groups if and when they develop bourgois tendencies and desert the cause of proletarian revolt; 3) to expect that the Chinese revolution, in its true and final aspect, will be slow in developing, and cannot be hastened by immediate and violent measures...
...Marne"; but in Paris his strategy has long been the target of savage attacks by military critics. Even such a comparative bystander as the omniscient Winston S. Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, has taken the trouble to describe good "Papa" Joffre as 'this bullheaded, broad-shouldered, slow-thinking, phlegmatic, bucolic personage...
...London last week, the members of the British Empire cancer campaign, which is functioning somewhat in the manner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, heard described the slow motion photography of living cancer cells. A motion picture camera is focused on a cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal...
Written in the mood, somewhat in the setting of South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...