Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mortgage Front. Another farm grievance against Washington was on mortgage relief. Since March i the Farm Credit Administration had advanced $342,000,000 to Federal land banks, regional credit corporations, farm cooperatives. Yet last week Speaker Rainey roundly flayed F. C. A. for its slow progress on refinancing farm mortgages, charged it with still following "Republican policies...
...Varsity in yesterday's workout gave the impression that it is not lacking in power but that it is slow to start, slow to block and slow to take advantage of an opening. No fair estimate can be made of the backfields used because of frequent substitutions on the Jayvees but it looked as though the sophomores had the edge. Only a light workout is scheduled for tomorrow...
Thus the current state of Education, involving 30,000,000 pupils and 1,000,000 teachers. For two years pedagogs have bemoaned their slow but steady deflation. Last week as the schools opened many of them felt more bitter than ever. U. S. Industry seemed headed briskly into the stretch. U. S. Education was still at the turn, far in the rear. Who would help it catch...
...four days of rain, had delayed the tournament a full week. When sturdy Helen Jacobs, whose muscles were as solid as her opponent's convictions, finally took the court against Dorothy Round, who had beaten her twice in England and even won a set from Helen Wills, the slow moist turf made a perfect surface for the slow, sly Jacobs chops. Her victory, 6-4, 5-7, 5-2, set the stage for a final that promised to be boringly familiar. Even the fact that Helen Wills Moody had been troubled all week by a sore back...
...Standard Oil Co. of New York, now-one of the two operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...