Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Work Relief Bill past the House originally the President had to promise that Secretary Ickes would not have chief charge of spending the $4,880,000,000. Congress likes neither the slow pace at which the PW Administrator put out the $3,300,000,000 of the original Public Works appropriation nor his crusty attitude toward politicians seeking political favors. Mr. Ickes still battled in private for a hefty slice of the $4,880,000,000, but last week everything seemed to be going against him. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell took away his Soil Erosion Service...
Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4½ days...
Manhattan and divorce, bought a ranch house outside of Taos, N. Mex. There she has been, off & on, ever since, and there, while her stolid Indian husband, Antonio Lujan, farms the fields or goes about his slow tribal business, she has written an occasional book-her reminiscences of her late fly-in-the-parlor neighbor, D. H. Lawrence (Lorenzo in Taos), the first volume of a much-advertised autobiography (Intimate Memories). As an interlude in her autobiographical life-work comes this description of how she passes her winter days. Those who enjoy, one way or another. Author Luhan...
...York City race riot occurred under the English in 1712, when a wild rumor that slaves were plotting to massacre the whites condemned 21 Negroes to death. In 1741 a similar tale circulated by a white servant girl caused the colonists to burn 14 Negroes "alive with a slow fire until dead and consumed to ashes," hang 18 more. Refusing to be impressed into the war to make Negroes free, shanty Irishmen in 1863 staged the historic "Draft Riots," featured by the burning of a Negro orphanage at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, and the sacking of an early Negro...
Only an average-length novel (255 pp.), He Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again...