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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington followed Congress' instructions by purging 30,000 aliens (2,000 in Texas alone), and an unannounced number of political job holders, from his payrolls. He also called in all his regional directors to plan the discharge of 1,000,000 clients in case Congress was slow or balky about the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appeasement | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Airmail service is a big-city luxury. U. S. airlines, hungrily eying the enormous potential postal business for them in small towns, have had to pass it up, since collecting mail on a "milk-route" would be slow because of many stops, uneconomic because of the high cost of landing fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pick-up | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...greatest rhythm section ever put together. Proof offered is any one of Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home and see if you still like Clinton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

...Principality of Liechtenstein, a five-by-twelve-mile independent State in the central Alps between Austria and Switzerland, is dogged but slow. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein decided to join Austria and go to war against Prussia, its Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Hoary War | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

When the race was over, 21,000 astonished fans realized that thoroughbreds are thoroughly unpredictable. The mighty Stagehand, a notoriously slow starter, lacked the stretch-running drive to overtake the leaders this time, finished three lengths behind speedy Bull Lea and a half length behind Marshall Field's Sir Damion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter Winners | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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