Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most Democratic Senators were decidedly lukewarm, if not openly hostile to what sounded very much like a revival of the doctrines of the Federalist Party, dead since 1817. Said Florida's Fletcher: "We have tampered with the Constitution enough already." Said Texas' Connolly: "I would be very slow to vote for an amendment." Said Missouri's Clark: "I had assumed that the question of Federal and state government under the Constitution had been settled for 150 years...
Sentimental Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, last week gave the House of Commons Britain's revised air program, two months after Adolf Hitler had told Sir John Simon that Germany's new air fleet will match France's 1,700 planes. Slow in coming, the British reply was impressive. Last week, while Baldwin explained the bellicose program in principle to the Commons, Air Minister Lord Londonderry gave the House of Lords the details...
...Laurence Snyder that his most famed protégé will break it by 3-sec. is based on the fact that, with a running start, Owens has covered the distance in 8.4. Traveling at full speed, he averages 35.71 ft. per sec. His current performances are impaired by slow acceleration which he hopes to correct within the next two years. Coach Snyder also expects him to jump 27 ft. "when he gets his take-off right." Sure to be a mainstay of next year's Olympic team, Owens is 21, 5 ft. 10 in., 165 lb. He plans...
...broke with his mistress, took his wife and family abroad on a slow and unfashionable boat, settled them in the French countryside, in a house that had sentimental associations for him. But his wife, poor wretch, didn't like it; his sons didn't like their English school. She took them home and got a divorce. Meantime Tom's mistress was going haywire and ruining a good chance in Hollywood because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace...
...Central Africa, the short, stocky, reddish-haired white man who reached Manhattan on a slow transatlantic boat last week is known as The Young Python. But his passport, the Social Register, the 1914 Harvard Classbook, the tax rolls of Rockland County, N. Y. and the corporation registry of Lugene (swank Manhattan opticians) all list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria...