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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a regular library out of the place, spreading it thick all over the tables. And at night, there's a regular bunch of night-ows who stay here and do everything but hoot. I don't know anything about how fast they eat, but they do make a slow and sociable affair out of their meals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Eat and Run" Is the Exception, Maintain Impatient Waiters, Chafing for Students to Leave Kickshaws and Cigarettes | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Status Quo. The Chinese status quo remained unchanged during the week, the principal military action still in progress being the slow advance against Shanghai of the Cantonese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Prudent Dynamiters | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...University Seconds will face the Four Rivers Juniors. The Seconds are slow in rounding into form; their sole victory to date is a 2 to 1 win over Bridgewater Normal School, while Northeastern and Clan Lindsay have taken their measure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS SET FOR WILLIAMS CLASH | 10/30/1926 | See Source »

...should be generally recognized that airplanes are undergoing a slow evolution. Anything of real value is evolved slowly. It is a natural law. Therefore it is wrong to expect planes to be safe, efficient, and generally practicable twenty years after their conception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRD BLAMES PRESS FOR OPTIMISTIC EXPLOITATION OF UNSAFE AVIATION | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

...artificial and highly undesirable. It is true America is going slowly but she is also building a sound basis for a truly national industry. When the business men of the United States start manufacturing, they will not need a helping hand from the government. Our aerial evolution is slow but thorough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRD BLAMES PRESS FOR OPTIMISTIC EXPLOITATION OF UNSAFE AVIATION | 10/26/1926 | See Source »

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