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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deliberations of the I. C. C. in the Nickel Plate and other cases, as well as the slow progress made in the rail valuations, have afforded a quite legitimate excuse to railroad heads for not accomplishing more mergers in recent months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILWAYS: Consolidations | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

...week. They just stand. Shoes go by, precise shoes, sprawling de- liberate shoes, hobbledehoys, clubfoot, no sock and bunions; narrow slippers that do their walking in limousines. New men take their eyes off the floor and look at faces; thousands of wall-eyed masks with halitosis, passing in slow and grave procession, the time comes for action. Somebody actually puts his hand in the leopard's cage, or forgets to register a book, or spits on the floor. Then the custodian snarls his ill-natured correction, clearly demonstrating that he is an insolent varlet who does not know his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Federal Employes | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Patterson was wild. He slammed balls into the net, he slammed them out-not out by one or two inches, but by many yards. Hawkes was slow. Williams and Richards winked at each other. "What, the crowd wondered, gives these Australians the impression they can play tennis?" Patterson himself was beginning: to wonder. He had hit the ball hard before. It had gone out. He hit it twice as hard. It went in. His Partner picked up heart, and assisted by the errors of erratic Williams, they ran out the set 8-6 added the next to their score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Doubles | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...late summer dusk stooped to enfold the arid campus of New York university, Manhattan, one evening last week, a band struck up. The slow movement of the brasses and drums and the grandiose melancholy of the horns contributed a poetic languor to the cool beginning of the evening. But no languor possessed the many listeners. They whispered to each other, took excited notes, whistled snatches of tune. They were playing a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Game | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...Brookline. Gerald Patterson for Australia - a tall sleek giant, epitomizing in his person all the large-limbed grace and slow-footedness of the western peoples-op-posed Takeichi Harada for Japan, a man like a brown jumping-jack. Patterson drove his mighty shots into the net, swacked them over the backline, was tidily defeated but his teammates, Anderson and Hawkes, won all their matches, eliminated Japan from the Davis Cup tryouts. Australia was scheduled to oppose France to see which will face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Tennis | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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