Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This method of furnishing capital credit to the country was approved a fortnight ago by President Roosevelt after conference with Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the R. F. C., but the plan has been slow to get under way due to the difficulties and delays of organization of the local corporations...
...told. Nobody seems to know much of anything about Bates. Dave Morey doesn't know himself. But too many people already know about Harvard. They all agree that there is trouble in the offing unless the squad shows more promise than at present. It is ragged, it is slow, the returning Varsity men are substitutes except for Wells, Dean, Nevin and Gundlach, or else they never have shown Varsity calibre...
...team at present is in a formative state. Coach Casey is trying all possible combinations, and may have hit on the right one in his new backfield. The old A backs were sluggishly slow and the new ones are the exact opposites. With Dean supplying the power they ought to prove formidable. Nothing left to do but wait for the woodsmen from Maine. --BY TIME...
...would a violinist whirring through Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system...
...drink from a shallow well, he saw in the water beneath his own reflection "the ragged black face of a man, newly murdered." But he was thirsty and drank "gratefully." Just returned to England at the outbreak of the Boer War, Talbot went back again as war correspondent. A slow-healing love affair drove him to Siberia, where he shot an ovis nivicula (mountain sheep), and a new species later named in his honor ovis cliftoni. He was stabbed by a drunken Cossack servant, rested a while at Verkhoyansk, coldest spot on earth. A fellow-traveller, Scientist Hertz, sent...