Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Composer Leginska's music is sometimes turgidly slow, it is on the whole superior to the story she chose and to the Chicago City Opera's blundering production. Well-knit and melodious, the music often gives a real feeling of the sea as it beats against the chalk cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas...
Five days later another Midwestern team made Easterners look sick & slow. Sloshing over the same field, Indiana University's four-man team finished 1, 2, 3, and 5 in National Amateur Athletic Union's 10,000-metre run. Winner was stocky Donald L. Lash, who trotted home in the excellent time of 32:42.6. Seventh was Thomas C. Ottey, intercollegiate champion in 1933 and 1934. Since the Hoosiers did not run five men, team honors fell to Millrose Athletic Association for the fifth time in six years...
...Cast Off!" Like a stone skipped by a giant hand, the China Clipper last week skittered in long hops across the Pacific. Biggest hop was the 2,400 miles to Honolulu, accomplished in the slow time of 21 hours because of head winds and the heavy load. So full of philatelic mail was the huge plane that her fittings had to be stripped and two crew members left behind to make room for 115,000 letters...
...swerve until they strike the hard core. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who has an 85-ton magnet to play with on the University of California campus, produced a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly hard to translate into English, slow neutrons braked by a paraffin shield have more effect on the target than fast ones, are currently lionized in every physics journal...
...with a trail of brilliant flame from the engine exhaust," said Pilot C. J. Melrose to a group of worried Singapore airport officials one night last week. Just in after a bad battle with a monsoon over the Bay of Bengal between Allahabad and Singapore, Pilot Melrose in his slow plane had seen the sleek Lockheed-Altair Ladv Southern Cross of Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing...