Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow, but steady growth in the number of students enrolled and in the facilities for instruction is reported in Dean H. J. Hughes report of the Harvard Engineering School for 1926 to President Lowell...
...should continue to maintain very high standards for our degrees even if the immediate result is slow growth. In time we shall be able to attract more and more students of the best quality; and this is our ambition...
...usual, that the danger to the city had been exaggerated by a Nationwide, sensation-seeking press. Newspapers were accused of having published pictures of New Orleans streets, flooded by rain, of labeling these pictures as "Mississippi flood scenes." Nevertheless, citizens of New Orleans waited tensely as the flood crest, slow as a snail but powerful as the sea, moved closer to their city...
...design, the strangulation of each prisoner was made as slow as possible, increasing the agony. Prisoners looking on did not know whether or not their throats would be the next to be squeezed, their eyes the next to bulge from tortured sockets. One prisoner was a woman. To strangle her took ten minutes...
...interviewer asked not too fact-fully, perhaps, whether the Englishman was as slow to appreciate a joke as be is reported...