Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chances were that no such action would be necessary. Nose-counters last week found the Senate strongly in favor of repealing the publicity clause. That the Senate would be slow to act was of small consequence, the Treasury having already announced that it could not possibly have the "pink slip" information ready for public inspection before summer...
Five days after the accident the hole in the man's lung closed. No more air escaped into his skin and Dr. Atkinson removed the air-venting needles. "The patient's recovery was slow but uneventful...
...years back, returns to find him becoming enamoured of another woman, and by skillful ridicule and sophistication wins him back for her own. It is not a play to be taken seriously and makes no claim to anything more than it is--amusing, light, and genuinely entertaining, although somewhat slow in spots...
...money four years ago when his story, Many Thousands Gone, won a $5,000 prize. His collection of poems. Now With His Love, got him a good rating on form. Last week bystanders saw him perform for the first time on the full-length course of a novel. Slow over the first hurdles, he picked up in the straightaway, came home in style...
...tutor, the joy in work for its own sake, and the risk of being fired from the benefits of college because of neglect of courses. On the side of the course system, there is the lure of honors for the bright and hard-working, perhaps a scholarship; for the slow, the assurance that he will remain in the academic folds until graduation, the assurance of a degree, and the risk of losing all the much-tooted benefits of tutors and tutorial...