Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That day in San Francisco, just a few hours before the power corporation advertisement was to appear, certain facts developed that demanded changes in it. Normal telegraph instruction to the newspapers that were to carry the advertisement would have been too complicated and slow. It was impossible...
...touched, as expected, on the subject of war but those who knew him were at once surprised by his unexpected eloquence: "America will not start the next war, but thanks to the enterprise of our empire builders, America will be able to stop it, Slow to start, but sure to finish, is our record in war. And this should be a warning to trouble-seekers...
...after shouldering burdens at least as great as those which have fallen upon any other mortal, he remains unscathed of soul, brisk in thought and manner. Americans remember him as the Generalissimo who drove through their cities, after the War, clad in a handsome blue uniform and with a slow, understanding smile. Frenchmen know him as the still active President of the Inter-Allied Military Commission to enforce the Treaty of Versailles. Of an evening he is to be found with a pipe and a friend at his snug little house, 138 Rue de Grenelle, Paris...
...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...Collidge rebate proposal, or the Melion-Cooliege plan, as he preferred it should be called, at some length. He declared that the issue was one of great moment since it affected the pocketbook of every taxpayer. His only objection to a rebate was the fact that it was necessarily slow and full of red tape. However, he admitted that there was a surplus of $300,000,000 in the Treasury and that Secretary A. W. Mellon could handle the relate to Mr. Mellon as "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton...