Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineer John Russ, seeing Mr. Pruden, tried to obey, put on the emergency brakes, also blew the locomotive's whistle. Prudent Mr. Pruden, noticing that the train had only been able to slow down to 40 miles per hour as it approached him, jumped. The locomotive's cowcatcher nipped him, knocked him 50 feet...
...flood was, indeed, in its last stages?no grand finale but a slow seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. A comparatively small area in the extreme southern portion of the Atchafalaya River basin?was still experiencing tense moments, but no major levees had "gone out" and even in northern Louisiana the waters were falling...
...stiff wind made the Thanies unusually choppy today and to a large extent accounts for the slow time of 23 minutes made by the Elis. They rowed the course downstream, and although this gave them a favoring tide it was not sufficient to counteract the handicap of the head wind...
Miscellaneous features were offered as well as the regular events on the Union program throughout the course of the year. Among these was a concert by the Harvard Instrumental Clubs, sports night on which various slow motion pictures were shown and the inauguration of Sunday evening concerts...
Commander Nicholas H. Heck, earthquake expert of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, assembled seismograph records, studied them, decided that the dire disturbance had been in western China or in Tibet, where population is thin, communication slow. He waited to hear if mountains had toppled, lonely caravans been swallowed...