Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suggestions have been made that ping pong would also provide interest but as yet no set has appeared. Such slow and pacific games as checkers and chess have not even been considered...
...slow, yellow gas engulfed London, suddenly, one morning last week. It was not poisonous but it made eyes to smart and throats to tickle. Grime laden, it soiled. Dense, it blotted out objects within arm's reach. Translucent, it diffused broad daylight into a dull, enveloping bluish glow. As it must to London, "the worst fog in half a century" had come...
...course to be expected that legislative progress in this direction will be slow and cautious. The effects of the Ohio recommendation, as it now stands, upon university enrolment would be negligible. When other states become accustomed to the principle, it should be possible to extend the entrance examination requirement to all applicants for the university and to so regulate the examination that from one third to one half of graduating high school classes should fall of admission. One very effective means for silencing the opposition to this development is a ceaseless propaganda for the Junior College. The importance of this...
Your L. A. Sperling from Ohio in TIME, Feb. 14 thinks he's pretty funny making out West Virginia's a "slow" state. But all a gentleman can think after living his lifetime in West Virginia and hearing him talk is that Ohio must be just as bad as they say it is, full of depraved creatures, no account presidents, unjust laws, terrible climate and the Ohio "gang" (Forbes, Daugherty and worse). If he couldn't have fun on Sunday in West Virginia he couldn't have fun in Heaven, and he will never get there...
Contributions have been slow and from too few people. Financier Cutting knew that, but instead of coming to the cancer society meeting last week, he sent a letter. Financier Thomas W. Lament, who was there, read the letter aloud: "I write to say that I will contribute the last $250,000 of the $1,000,000 endowment fund which your society is endeavoring to raise, if the whole amount is subscribed by Oct. 1. When $750,000 is paid or subscribed, I will pay the $250,000 of my pledge...