Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program of entertainment for the year has not been definitely arranged. Efforts are being made to secure slow motion pictures of football games and tennis matches and to have coaches of these two sports explain them. Plans are also underway to have Mr. C.E. Danworth of New York, speak on "Mysticism...
Last week, famed Frenchmen led a slow funeral procession across country roads through multitudes of mourning peasants and bourgeois to St.-Fargeau, near Paris, and buried the body of the disconsolate orator besides the grave of his wife...
Which they all did, by slow stages, Jim Pickett teaching grave little Addie her sums and reading and geography, placing with her, bathing in creeks, he being as much a part of the chicken-wagon family as Breaksteel or Kit and Luce, the mouse-colored mules. They all reached and drove down that old country road, Broadway, jamming traffic for fair as they hunted for a wagon yard, raged at by police-men until late in the rainy night, when kind Mr. Hibbard, a cop from Missouri, showed them into. a deserted fire-engine house...
Berlenbach launched a one-two punch like the slow, alternate strokes of a freight locomotive's pistons. Slattery danced out; he lifted his hands from his sides to flick the sultry visage of his opponent; he mocked and mowed, smiling his smile of a derisive faun; his body flashed with spite. Berlenbach lowered his head. When struck, he shook it from side to side-a bull perplexed by dragonflies...
...churches and the mosques, but not in the schools. All persons born in Turkey, without regard to race, religion or nationality, have all rights of Turkish citizenship. The Turkish leaders without previous experience must evolve the new administration. There are bound to be mistakes and the evolution will be slow, but there are many evidences of progress...