Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Department of Chemical Engineering Yale University New Haven, Conn. Although carbon dioxide does indeed leak through rubber 15 times as fast as air, the leakage is still slow. A CO2-inflated raft will carry a man four to six days. CO2 is used only for the first quick inflation: the raft thereafter is kept buoyant by a hand air-pump...
...possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting was done with .38-calibre revolvers with 4-in. barrels, slow and quick fire at 15 and 25 yards. In the round permitting .45-calibre guns with barrels up to 10 in., Inspector Echols was tied at 300 by his teammate, Customs Inspector Erne Lee Ballinger of El Paso, Texas...
...voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a Gold Mine in the Sky, voters remembered the plea of Franklin Roosevelt, author of all their benefits, to send back to the Senate his dear, distinguished colleague Mr. Barkley...
Chief Characters: Slow-moving, heavy-jowled Exchange President Charles R. Gay, a worried broker who means well; arrogant, handsome Richard Whitney, leader of a clique known as the Old Guard; puckish, tart-tongued SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, reputed to be a radical of the deepest dye; Brokers Paul Shields, E. A. Pierce, John Hanes and William McChesney Martin Jr., upstarts...
...first to draw upon the Federal Art Project for an important exhibition. The potentialities shown in the Museum's selection, called "New Horizons in American Art," elevated many a New Yorker's indifferent eyebrows (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936). In other cities, galleries have prudently gone slow on WPA exhibitions, waiting for quality to accumulate. Last week Chicago's great Art Institute, able to skim the cream from more than three years' work by local artists, opened the biggest, handsomest WPA show yet held...