Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Extremely slow in getting headway, "Knickerbocker Holiday" has moments of inspired pleasantry, but the stretches between these oases are long and dry indeed...
...again with undiminished brilliance. Others grow dim quickly, unpredictably, then gradually regain their former radiance. The latter type of variable star has long puzzled astronomers, since its spectrum at its dullest shows little change, indicates that no fundamental alteration has occurred. Prime example is R Coronae Borealis. Reappearance is slow, sometimes taking many months. Last week John O'Keefe of the Harvard Observatory published an explanation for the behavior of R Coronae Borealis in The Telescope...
...those who make up theories on education, that they overlook the very human habits of wandering from the "path" and tripping up here and there. They forget that no man ever learned a thing for himself directly; it is natural that he approach a new idea in a slow, roundabout fashion, appraising and rationalizing as he goes...
...capable staff is to find reserves for the team. Harlow started the year with only a 14-man "red shirt" Varsity squad, of which nine are Seniors. He has announced the intention of building up these "red-shirts" to 30 by the Brown game, but the promotions have been slow, in keeping with the greenness of the reserve material...
...series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster, and his shrill, shapeless, ill-natured wife Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment, revealed no new facet of either Farrell's talent or of the life of the neighborhood...