Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus at low temperatures, as in northern states during the winter months, tremendous ice pressures, much greater than would have been anticipated under older soil theory, may form beneath the highways. Further, if freezing is sufficiently slow, ice layers may continue to grow indefinitely, the tests showed conclusively...
...goes to the mark with Sam Allen, national collegiate title holder. Last week at the Millrose games, Allen won the sixty yard hurdles, the first time that he had ever raced on a board track. It is expected, however, that the shorter distance in the Boston Garden will slow him down...
...send him to a leper colony 50 miles away, the name of Molokai meant nothing to the outside world. Molokai is an island to which the Hawaiian Government had exiled all its lepers after a frightful outbreak of the disease, a lawless chaos whose 800 foul inhabitants lived a slow death in huts, with only one another's company and the sweet intoxicating juice of the ki tree for distraction. Father Damien changed that, and in so doing made himself and Molokai famed...
...Schoolboys often outstrip routine work in the Freshmen year. There should be frank anticipation of the college course, with the view to shortening the latter, for youth's brain power is underestimated and the process of education before settlement into a gainful occupation and marriage has been slow and long. The prolonged period of infancy characteristic of the human species has been safeguarded to the detriment of the species...
...developed few players of its own, rarely shown signs of achieving a dignity beyond that of exhibition matches. O'Brien's tours draw their biggest crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size (4 ft. 11 in.), the speed of her awkward forehand drive...