Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was the third of a slow, shuffling decline in the stockmarket. From last month's high of 106.9 the Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks listed on the New York Exchange had sunk to 92. U. S. Steel was down from a 1934 high of $59 to $42, General Motors from $42 to $31, Baltimore & Ohio R. R. from $34 to $21, Allied Chemical from $160 to $133. Weakened by a thrice-pared dividend and rate-reduction threats, the leading power & light stock, Consolidated Gas, was selling near its Bear Market low of $31.50. Chart-watchers...
...rather inhospitable condition of the water during the races, all times were rather slow, but still good considering the handicaps under which the oarsmen worked...
...Class of 1912 baseball team defeated Pomfret Academy by the score of 20 to 3 in a slow game...
...time for the winners was seven minutes and seventeen seconds, which is rather slow for the Henley distance of one and five-sixteenths miles, but was not too bad in this case on account of the disadvantageous conditions. The Bellboys followed the Anglers at about one and one-half lengths with a time of 7.23; the Kirkland oarsmen trailed them by three-quarters of a length, turning in a time of 7.26; and the Rabbits drove the whole fleet across the finish in 7.28, a half-length behind the third boat...
...judging the art of any primitive group; certain general characteristics must be borne in mind. The exact style of the art depends upon the usable materials which the tribe has at hand. Again, since the structure of any primitive group rests on unity and slow growth, its art development is usually so slow that the initial result of working certain materials with certain tools has a lasting effect on the art character...