Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale came back in the ninth, however, to gain the verdict. Hammersley beat out a slow roller to Pollard, a lucky break for the Blue which put Barbee in a hole. Vaughan followed with a three base drive to right center, Hammersley scoring, and Caldwell immediately sent Vaughan home with a single over the closed-in infield. Barbee retired the next three men with little trouble, but Harvard went out in one-two-three order in the last half of the inning...
...George Arthur, Lord Kitchener's biographer and private secretary, was not slow to add his testimony...
...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...
...such matters, Mr. Metz is something more than a mere layman. He owns many chemical factories. But laboratory scientists were slow in getting to work. Said Columbia Professor of Chemistry Bogert: "Mr. Metz has risked little by his offer. . . . The making of a synthetic opium that will have all the medicinal qualities, or the good qualities, and be shy of the narcotic, or bad qualities, is something that I do not believe will be done-at least for a very long time...
...Vapor gases, of which the only one used in the War was mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide). This gas is 3. blistering penetrant, the effects of which last for a considerable length of time, owing to its slow evaporation. Ground saturated with this liquid cannot be occupied for at least a week. In high concentrations, such as were used, it is certain death, to breathe it without a mask; but although there were 150,000 casualties in the British Army from mustard gas, less than 1 in 40 died and about 1 in 200 became permanently unfit...