Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Overlate to stop a war, the Government ranged itself at the eleventh hour behind the Covenant at Geneva. Even now its action has been slow and halt hearted. While paying lip service to the League, it is planning a vast, expensive rearmament program which will only stimulate similar programs elsewhere. Government is a danger to the peace of the world and to the security of this nation...
...nose when he was born. That event occurred near Geneva in 1888 where his father, from whom he inherits his passion for machinery, was a prosperous watchmaker. He traveled widely, studying architecture in Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Rome, finally set up shop in Paris just before the War. Commissions being slow, he turned to painting and writing essays for art magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after...
Welcoming the visitors, cheery, slow-spoken Director Frank Baldwin Jewett spoke well of adversity: "The Depression is a good thing because it has made possible the doing of much work that we would not otherwise be doing for five or ten years. We have probably done more important things during the Depression than during any period of our history...
After Johansen's goal the Green came came back strongly and tested goalie Williams with several stiff shots. The half ended, however, with the Crimson leading by a point. In the second half there was a slow start but the Dartmouth booters finally got the ball down to the mouth of the Harvard goal on a penalty shot where it was kicked around for a few seconds before Ward of Dartmouth got ahold of it and sunk it with a neat placement...
...story of a design-for-living trio who've grown up together only to get hurt and tangled in the war. Despite the fact that it moves at rather a slow pace, the film is done so carefully and played with such sincerity as to be extremely impressive...