Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
...only for the product advertised but also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...
According to astronomical theory no force external to the earth can produce large changes in its rotation on its axis. As for surface changes on the earth. Dr. Brown rules them out. Older theories held that accumulations of ice and snow at the poles might slow up the earth's speed. But the least amount of frozen water necessary to slow up the earth would have changed the average sea level all over the world by about a foot. This has not happened. The weight of mountains and force of volcanoes are also inconsiderable. Even if the whole group...
...Brown offered the following hypothesis : astronomers believe that certain stars pulsate bodily, and it is not unreasonable to suspect that the earth, a star, pulsates too. If there is a uniform contraction and expansion of the entire globe a raising of five inches in the crust is sufficient to slow down the earth and account for the maximum lengthening of the day which has so far been observed. The process of expansion, said Dr. Brown, might conceivably take place if there were a layer of material near the earth's surface which was at a critical temperature...
Finland, Sweden have more), U. S. scientists and entrepreneurs have been slow to explore and exploit them...