Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visitors to the Moscow Zoological Garden were permitted to look at turtles, snakes, lizards and bats which had been frozen for four months and warmed back to life. The new technique involves quick freezing of the outside of the creature, slow penetration of the cold to the vitals. While sudden or "one-sided" warming was fatal, gradual and uniform warming brought successful revival...
When a normal person becomes unconscious from breathing too much nitrogen, faints from low blood pressure, or simply goes to sleep, the fast small waves on the chart are replaced by large slow waves, one to five a second...
Harvard's first run came in the fifth when Captain Dick Maguire was safe on French's error. Hayes advanced him to second with a sacrifice, and, after Lincoln flied out, another error, this time by Chubet, Tiger shortstop, allowed the Crimson leader to score on Prouty's slow roller...
...charm and enraged by her breezy feminine sophistry, Dick Shale (Bramwell Fletcher) is equally determined to exploit his invention on his own, buy back and return to his family's farm. Angela's chief weapon is her glib ability to change the subject of an argument. Slow-witted Dick's most effective device is to throttle her when she does so. That he ultimately gets the farm is due more to clumsy main force than to tactical skill in debate...
...last dust storm because it covered the whole country. Some men thought that they could make money out of handwriting, and they published copybooks with a stylized, vertical Germanic script, which were adopted in every school in the country. Every teacher had to learn the method, which consisted of slow, laborious finger movements. It used to take a child half an hour to write the same amount that he can now put out in three minutes...