Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond stood at the open window, sniffling hungrily at the smells of departing winter and newborn Spring. The soft breeze blew in from the Charles, itself as yet frozen over, with dirty gray ice, and he stretched himself slowly, thoroughly, like a cat that has just woken up. A slow smile of perfect bliss came over his face, and of a sudden he collapsed, purring, onto the sofa...
...nation has yet been able to dissolve the difficulties of depression by a process of borrowing their way out. Our public debt of nearly 40 billion dollars--or one-fifth of the entire national wealth--should serve as a bracing tonic to even slow-witted treasury officials. Admittedly, the Administration is not entirely et blame as the recent survey report of the United States Conference of Mayors shows the distinct tendency of larging cities to pass their local relief burdens along to the federal government. Only five of the thirty-seven larger cities paid as much as one-third...
Scheu in the 1500-meters was beaten by Venzke, who was clocked in the rather slow time of 3:57.6, but the Crimson captain won easily from Meaden of Cornell and Quimby of Dartmouth, the two men who will be his main opponents in the Triangular Meet mile this Saturday. Ray of Manhattan failed to place...
...affected young woman on the U. S. screen. Likely to be popular, because of its stars and a rapid-fire style in which Director Robert Leonard shows the influence of Frank Capra, After Office Hours contains one genuinely comic sequence: a lunchroom proprietor (Henry Armetta) working himself into a slow rage when his patrons comment disdainfully on his taste in radio entertainment...
...tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider Mr. MacNaughton's achievement remarkable because his deep ore was only slightly higher than the lowest grade of surface ore mined anywhere in the U. S. Mr. MacNaughton had no great scientific tricks up his sleeve. Faced by the long, slow exhaustion of Michigan's "Copper Country," he took advantage of every piddling economy and operating short-cut he could think...