Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless they could find some new source of food and clothing they were doomed to slow extinction. To their worried guardian, the Canadian Government, reindeer seemed the best solution. But there were no reindeer within a thousand trackless miles of the hungry Eskimos...
...crime against the democratic state was that it grants the President power to surrender the control of the economic life of the people to trade associations and large corporations. He expected to see legal control of labor unions followed by the cooperative state, the disappearance of democracy, and a slow but sure movement toward absolute dictatorship...
...circulation sleuths (TIME, Oct. 22, pp. 36?37). . . . (Carried into a crowded, companionable Moscow tram, bright TIME starts more discussions than a tourist in kilts). Zipping through to Moscow with letter speed (record: 11 days), TIME tempts local scribes to translate its pungent Americana days before exchange editors digest slow-moving newspapers. . . . ROBERT S. CARR...
Only Jim Grady was able to elude the Red and Blue defense with any regularity, and he was held to six points. The Harvard team seemed slow and unsure in comparison to their stronger rivals. Captain Boys, who started at guard, was again sent out on fouls, and even Long Bill Gray was rendered ineffectual by the close Quaker guarding...
...gets a bit tired of hearing the hero referred to as "The Virginian" or Merne, and Thomas Jefferson as the "Sage of Albermarle" the writing is of the calibre which holds the reader's interest and makes the pages turn easily. Occasionally the style becomes a trifle plain and slow, but undoubtedly this will give place to a more easy flow as further books take their place in the high rank to which this may be accorded...