Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the best prizefighter in the world, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Not in years had a world's championship heavyweight match been given such a jocular press. Boxing experts noted that 29-year-old Galento had been around for eleven years, had been defeated 22 times, was a slow-moving human tub whose boxing technique consisted of roughhouse butting, wrestling, sticking thumbs in opponents' eyes. They agreed that the little fat man had nothing but a roundhouse left, elephantiasis of the ego and an honest conviction that Louis...
...oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used "in the art and science of mechanics'"; 6) a retrospective show of paintings by burly, grey-haired Joseph Stella, one of the first and most gifted "modern" U. S. artists...
...poor, too, and favorable weather would be needed even to equal official forecasts. Though in southern Italy recovery from rain and rust was quick, around Bologna 75% of the wheat was so dashed that machines could not be used and peasants were bringing out their sickles for a slow, back-breaking harvest by hand...
...came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about the mechanism of mutations (sudden, conspicuous changes in plants and animals which...
Although they are ingratiating and talented enough players, with (by now) merely piquant accents, the first half of their revue was lumbering and slow. Following Viennese custom, they included one long, serious number - an allegory that chugs back through history making as many stops as a milk train. Their advisers should have warned them that the Vienna dear to U. S. hearts is one of fluffy Schlagobers, not heavy Sauerbraten...