Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They began their tour by visiting a newspaper, an ice plant, a bakery, several power plants, and the garment factories in New York City. The most astounding thing to them was the wages paid, especially to women workers. So far as the press was concerned, they were a bit slow in formulating their estimates of what they saw, but one of them said: "One can observe the close co-operation between the worker and the employer at once. The wages, of course, are unusually high. It is my impression that high wages bring high production, although some hold...
...fame was slow in coming to little Bertha. She went to Indiana University and completed a four-year course in three. Then she taught in the Classical High School of Worcester. About that time Henry Landes, a Hoosier who had been a student with her, took his A.M. in geology at Harvard. A few months later, on the day after New Year's, 1894, they were married. He had a job as assistant to the state geologist of New Jersey. The next fall he was made principal of the Rockland (Me.) High School and a year later was appointed...
None the less, his promotion was slow. He was 47 before he became a colonel (1894) but he had plodded valiantly through Bismarck's Blut und Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...
...doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which had just now been so coldly serious, started to twinkle as the spectators pressed...
...intermediate exposure time of the ovaries and their related bodies, Dr. Steinach as far back as 1920 theorized, would slow up or stop the ova production of a patient and at the same time permit the continued creation of the sex hormones, stimulate the women. In the U. S. Dr. Harry Benjamin cautiously put this theory to practice. He uses a stimulation dose of X-ray one-seventh to one-tenth as strong as needed to produce erythema (redness). His conservative decision was that moderate, carefully regulated exposures of the ovarian sites to the X-rays induced good body...