Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peabody Museum's famous Borneo baskets which have kept scientists mystified for over a month now, gave their followers a new start when it was found early yesterday morning that their motion had stopped. The twin baskets have maintained a slow twirling motion, except for a brief interruption two weeks ago, since they were first hung up last October. Numerous attempts had been made to explain their motion, which seemed perpetual, visitors flocked daily to the Museum to see the University's modern wonder. Then yesterday when people came in to watch them at their expected rounds were astounded...
...Kara Khoto in the Gobi desert was one of the expedition's objectives. But progress was very slow. In many places the roads were mere gullies worn 20 to 30 feet below the surface of the surrounding country by the countless years of travel over them. In the rains these roads became mud sloughs. The expedition actually considered itself fortunate if it was able to cover 20 miles a day in the carts in which it went as far as Suchow in Kansu. Here it changed the carts for camels and turned northward...
Over 100 scientific gentlemen, representing 13 countries of Europe including the Soviets, assembled abroad and sailed to the U. S. on a slow boat. When they landed last week, one of their number, a lean, active gentleman of 81, in a Derby hat of antique cut, remarked: "Politicians are one thing; electricians another. . . .Talk about your League of Nations! We are one, and have been one for 20 years...
...speaking of the caging of animals as a private enterprise. . . . It is queer that curiosity leads to this . . . cruelty. It isn't, I suppose, for an Englishman to appeal to Americans to abate an abuse, but. . . to deprive wild animals of their freedom is a dreadful thing . . . a slow death...
...spent five years at the Perkins Institute, Boston, where he was Helen Keller's contemporary and friend. Casting about for an occupation, he tried music, piano-tuning, chair-caning, but resolved finally upon lecturing and poetry. Recognition was slow. He once received $1.65 for a talk delivered to 13 people. His poem, "How Massa Linkum Came," later a popular favorite, was refused by 17 editors before the Springfield Republican accepted...