Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgan rides alone in the rear of an open car. On bad days he uses a closed car, sits up front with his chauffeur. Usually their route is direct. But this, said the New Yorker, is the season of the year when Mr. Morgan & chauffeur make a detour, slow down almost to a stop as they pass through Sea Cliff so they can see a Mr. Young's superb blossoming plum tree...
...Introduction: In many courses, the brilliant students have been held back by the slow members of the sections, and have not been able to cover as much ground as they could have otherwise. The conference groups in History 1, for example, wander far afield from the required work of the course. With the purpose of making introductory courses more interesting for the good student and less embarrassing for the bad, we recommend...
Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...
...race took exactly 2 min., 5 sec. Omaha, the winner, bred for distance but usually a slow starter, broke faster than usual, took the lead on the far turn, stood off the challenge of Roman Soldier in the stretch, finished a length and a half in front. Roman Soldier closed strongly, four lengths ahead of Whiskolo who ran second to him in the Texas Derby. Nellie Flag, favorite when an intermittent drizzle started to put a skim of mud on the track, ran fourth. Other favored horses-Today, who bruised a heel day before the race; Boxthorn...
Mills has sold only about 1,000 counter mixers in the past five years. Last week it put its reasons for that slow progress into a suit against the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, National Dairy, Borden's, Beatrice Creamery and some 75 other U. S. ice cream makers, charging conspiracy in restraint of trade. Mills asked triple and special punitive damages amounting...