Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Controversy. The U. S. suggestion to ban gas as a war weapon aroused a storm, reminiscent of the recent Opium Conference (TIME, Dec. 1, 8, Feb. 2, Mar. 2). The friendly enemies of the U. S. were not slow to say: "At it again," thereby meaning that the U. S. was trying to "clean up" the whole arms trading situation instead of approaching the problem step by step. The pros and cons of gas in warfare were debated. The argument against gas can be put in one word: "Inhumane." The argument for gas, although not so well known, has been...
...Brinton's article also makes clear the fact that the problem of obtaining good tutors is one common to both Harvard and Oxford. Here the taste is more difficult because there is no tradition of tutoring. The impatience of undergraduates with the slow development of the tutorial system is but natural; yet it must be admitted that development has been almost as rapid as the solution of the problems of adaptation and tutors has admitted. To press boldly for great changes, however, is often the quickest means of obtaining some advance. Undergraduates, therefore, will probably insist more and more that...
...city streets were filled with an invisible, slow-working poison, touched and breathed by every passerby, so that vast portions of the population lost the use of some of their muscles, became impotent and sterile, sickened, sagged and died, that would be a very sorry pass indeed...
...plays with it, mocks it-rolls it ahead like a ball, follows after on subtle feet. The work is, in pattern, like those opera ballets of the 18th Century. Everything is a dance ; the chair-song a minuet; the fire-talk a gigue; dragon flies weave to the slow air of a waltz; the teapot chortles in a foxtrot. It is music that smiles over its shoulder, that caresses only with the tips of its fingers, and laughs at itself in its own mirrors...
...College alone, each and all of them pressing their own work, some of them sensitive about the pressure of others or their difficult conditions, we appreciate that the office of the President of Harvard University is no sinecure. If he be considerate of all, he is called slow: if he moves quickly he is called autocratic. The one essential is this, that the President have behind and with him full confidence for his ability devotion, leadership and sense of justice: this he has from the great body of teachers and officers, from the Overseers and Alumni: and this...