Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard in Bristol, R. I. to go ahead...
...Nest of Simple Folk's 398 sensitive, homegrown pages Author O'Faolain spreads with slow care the history of three generations of an Irish family, from 1854 to 1916. Since Ireland is going downhill, so does his family, but theirs is not a political story. Judith Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better...
...slow but gaudy melodrama of the lavender-&-horse-pistols school, Jezebel is notable mainly because it gives Miriam Hopkins (selected for the lead when Tallulah Bankhead fell ill) a chance to rival her cinema performance as a Southern vixen in The Story of Temple Drake...
...first day of his session in the witness chair Mr. Lord, in his strong baritone, put into the record an account of the help the Guardian Group and its stockholders had given to its banks during the Depression. There was $8,400,000 supplied in exchange for slow or undesirable assets in member institutions; $3,595,000 supplied by Charles Stewart Mott, vice president of General Motors, to make up for defalcations in the Union Industrial Bank of Flint; $1,600,00 in credit lent by directors of the Group to carry distress loans of officers and employes...
...sugar content of the blood."-Dr. James Harry Button, Chicago endocrinologist-. in the Illinois Medical Journal last week. What, then, was more simple, if highly hazardous, than to shoot x-rays into the pituitary, which lies under the brain, and the adrenals, which lie on the kidneys, and thus slow up the production of hormones by those glands? Dr. Hutton, who has cured inmates of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Elgin of dementia praecox and melancholia by means of hormones, boldly x-rayed the brains and loins of suitable patients in Chicago's Illinois Central Hospital...