Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival meetings. Young Olive went with him. played a portable organ when she was so small that she wore blocks strapped to the bottom of her feet in order to reach the pedals. If conversions were slow in starting, she had to work herself up to an intense emotional pitch to lead...
...benches as pneumatic tubes carried down to the press room below the news that the Supreme Court was about to pass on the AAAct in a test case brought by the Government against a New England textile mill regarding the cotton processing tax (TIME, Dec. 23 et ante). In slow precise tones, seldom consulting the written opinion that lay before him, Mr. Justice Roberts proceeded to outline the law and the nature of the case. For some minutes none of the hearers in the crowded courtroom knew which way the decision would go. Gradually the general tenor of the argument...
Editor Shively always has a few stock subjects which he whips unmercifully up & down his column on the slightest provocation. Jesse Jones' slow ticker service and the Administration's silver policy are current favorites. He seldom passes up a chance to hop on fatuous statements, particularly those in brokers' market letters. Great was the glee of Hard-money-man Shively when he spotted a Treasury statement in which "lawful money" erroneously appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction...
...watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
...time to writing music. Fellow Finns cheer him whenever he appears in public, never let his birthday pass without doing him some honor. Partly because his best works seem at first forbidding, partly because he has chosen to spend most of his life quietly at home, Sibelius has been slow to gain a worldwide recognition. This week when the big, bald Finn was 70, that recognition was his in abundance. Orchestras played his music in almost every music capital. In Boston Sergei Koussevitzky conducted Swan-white, Pohjola's Daughter, the tone poem Tapiola. For Philadelphia Leopold Stokowski chose...