Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma City later in the week watched two figures, protected by metal shields and a heavy barrage of water, start to work their way toward the centre of an oil fire. They were Mack and Fred Kinley, famed for their fire-fighting technique. After two days of slow progress, the Kinleys succeeded in removing the twisted debris of the derrick and in placing a gelatin bomb near the well's flame-spouting mouth. The same moment that an electric contact ignited the bomb a special battery of boilers threw live steam on the blaze, snuffed it out. Grim...
...With regard to the improvement already shown from Prohibition: the following statistics are of interest: from the passage of the law until 1921, deaths from liquor declined definitely: then, there was a slow increase until the winter of 1926-1927; but now the deaths caused either directly or indirectly from excessive (or even moderate) consumption of alcohol have been checked by the law. The number has never been so high as in pre-prohibition days, and never will as long as the present law is in existence...
Notre Dame's Savoldi and Carideo vododyoed an Indiana team too slow to gain ground and too taut to yield it. Notre Dame 14, Indiana...
...therefore, natural that California, wishing to slow up oil production but unable to do so directly by law, should last month make a law limiting the amount of gas oil companies might allow to go to waste at their wells.* Due to varying conditions in different fields, no general ratio of gas waste to oil production could be specified; instead, the law provided that waste should be limited to a "reasonable amount" to be determined in each case by State Oil and Gas Supervisor R. D. Bush. Waste can be limited by "recycling" the gas into the ground, thereby sustaining...
...theme. Murnau, director of "Sunrise", here too handles distinctively even such commonplaces as a fight by means of skillful photography; and his shots of the naturally more promising trapeze acts are excellent. For about two-thirds of the film the emotional moments are smoothly presented, with the gaps in slow-moving scenes filled in by the musical accompaniment; but as soon as the dialogue begins, and the Movietone records Charles Morton's body-shaking sobs as short, shrill, barks, the screen sadness produces an equal and opposite reaction, and the audience laughs. That temporarily destroys the soothing effect of Janet...