Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole distance is about equal to that between New York and San Francisco, and with the slow going which a large train necessitates will take several months...
...cursory observation the latest CRIMSON prohibition poll may mean practically nothing. Yet like most attempts of kindred nature throughout the country this does actually evidence a certain slow movement from the intolerance of emotional morality to the tolerance of intellectual sanity...
They were rather slow to commit themselves, those who went. They were awed by the solemnity of the occasion, by the magnificence of Toscanini's production. It was not pappy, they said, not dull. Nor yet had it the characteristics of Boheme. It seemed rather not to be like Puccini at all. It was spectacular, Chinese with a decidedly Italian flavor, the story of a beautiful, cruel princess, chaste as a buttercup, up for marriage to the one who succeeds in unraveling three riddles she propounds. The Prince of Persia comes, dares to try, to risk his head...
...first year crew jumped into the lead at the start, but then putting the stroke up too high they lost their full power and soon fell behind the schoolboys. The oarsmen in both Freshman boats seemed to have difficulty in spacing out properly and getting a smooth stroke. The slow time of 6 minutes 14 seconds over a mile course was due largely to the strong head wind and the roughness of the water on the basin...
...three years that followed my admiration for Oxford, and loyalty to my college there, increased with more intimate knowledge. But the same knowledge brought conviction that the really organic, fundamental things that make Oxford what it is are the product of eight centuries of slow ripening, and can be produced in no other way. I returned to Harvard believing that it would be impossible as undesirable to transform our University into a trans-Atlantic Oxford; and this feeling has deepened ever since...