Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Importation of culture can never produce the intellectual morale that is bred by the slow internal growth of an integrated department in any field of knowledge. Mr. Conant can afford the university a plethora of great names, but unless the upward trend of the curricula is such as to foster their development within the ranks of the undergraduate and graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies...
...House approved the Senate's resolution, it was conceded that it would become a sentence of slow death. For industry would not want to be bothered attending for nine months at the deathbed of an emasculated Eagle...
...tall, heavy-framed man with powerful shoulders and a slow, enigmatic smile, Orlando Weber may have been thought icy by the few hirelings that ever saw him. But with his friends he can be gracious, charming and an exciting conversationalist. For years he has delved deep in broad economic studies, has latterly developed strong doctrines concerning economic nationalism and the necessity of upping farm income by subsidy schemes. These he delights to propound to many an aghast or incredulous Wall Streeter. And he retired not to a leisurely country life on his Mt. Kisco, N. Y. estate but to further...
...answers are a mystery, but tradition will be enriched on the afternoon June 18. It always is at Poughkeepsie, no matter whether the race is as slow as of 1929 or as close as the eyelash Syracuse-Cornell finish of 1908 and Washington Navy...
Disillusion was slow but sure. Priest Coughlin is bitter in his hatred of the Federal Reserve System and its banker-managers. By last March he was calling the New Deal a flat failure largely because "President Roosevelt has compromised with the money changers." His savage attack in Cleveland last week led observers to believe that the President would have to step to the Coughlin whip or count the Priest lost...