Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phonograph records, scores, and piano music that have grown up in their libraries. These collections are complete enough to satisfy any taste, and are generally accompanied by music rooms with pianos and victrolas so that any resident may hear whatever music he likes. The students have not been slow to take advantage of these opportunities; in Lowell House alone, Brahms' First Symphony and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" were each played fifty times in a few months, even more than the bells...
...scrimmage was slow but contributed the only action on the field yesterday. Casey went over the game on Saturday as is the custom on Monday and the regulars took it easy for the afternoon. Signal drill was omitted...
...working popular songwriter, a South Weymouth, Mass., boy who went to California when he was 18, got a liking for cowboy songs and stories when he was touring the cattle country as fiddler in a small dance orchestra. Billy Hill learned then that the real cowboy songs are mostly slow and nostalgic, that with a few exceptional cona ti yi yonpy, yonpy ya's, herders sang to quiet the cattle or to soothe themselves at the end of a hard day's ride. When sound movies brought the songwriters' goldrush to Hollywood, Billy Hill went there...
...that Hitler has withdrawn formally from the League, the four power peace pact signed by Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy must be the subject of anxious peculation. Mussolini wants to organize a meeting of the signatories at Stresa, but Mr. Henderson has not been slow to see what a tremendous blow at the diplomatic standing of the League this would entail. By blocking action at Stresa, he hopes to force Hitler back into the Geneva parley, but it is highly questionable that this can be done. For Hitler's dominance, like the dominance of any dictator, depends upon...
Aside from this the match was slow, consisting of a punting duel between Bilodeau and Exeter's Kagain. The prep-school suffered a serious loss in the first period when Captain Hamelin Turner left the game with a pulled cartilege in his left knee...