Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...
Such a "marking" has meaning to school executives, parents and the pupils themselves. The brilliant, lazy student does not receive satisfaction from high marks that are inherited rather than earned, and the hard-working, slow pupil receives recognition for his good qualities...
...droll was the President's comment: "We Russians are working slowly and trying to work faster. You Americans are working fast and trying to slow down...
...single find but to the accumulated evidence of many finds. In several places in the West and Southwest, he pointed out, human remains and crude implements had been found in association with certain species of ground sloths, musk oxen, elephants, all long extinct. Weather, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, slow-spoken, thin-faced secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed sun observer, flatly affirmed before the Academicians that weather repeats itself in cycles of 23 years. All the assembled scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months...
This exposition has taken a slow hour and not a chorus girl has yet been seen. Fay Templeton, a turtle-like little old (67) lady, has sung one charming song with the pinched remains of a fine alto voice, and then died. Composer Jerome Kern has supplied half .a dozen excellent tunes. Appearing as a customer of Aunt Minnie, Lyda Roberti has got her usual comedy out of wriggling her stomach to show that she is a dangerous woman and waving her arms to show that she is a tomboy. Finally novelty appears...