Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closed his eyes and still saw a river, another river which looped almost directly beneath him as he lay at the rim of the valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices...
...divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack of clubs. The croupier scooped up the chips, paid 50 to 1 on straight bets on the jack...
...Continued its slow legislative moves to help the hard-pressed railroads (carloadings last week were 30% under those of a year ago). Added to the list of proposed emergency laws was the first draft of a bill presented by Labor Executive George Harrison to allow railroads to reorganize without entering the courts under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. This section, the roads' only present recourse when they go to the wall, is so phrased that not one of the 25 Class I roads to try it has succeeded in reorganizing because bondholders have been unable to agree with...
...possible to get an accurate impression of the quality of their work. This was so mainly because the choruses were sung by female voices, the clarity of the all-important diction being further obscured by the muffling of the words behind a heavy curtain. The action, though a trifle slow, went off with creditable smoothness, and the costumes by Alfonso Ossorio '38 and the lighting by George Wells contributed to the professional atmosphere of the production. All credit should be given to the Poet's Theatre of Harvard for undertaking such a difficult and rewarding task and congratulations offered...
Back in Washington after a fortnight at Pinehurst-during which he dabbled about with a putter, found golf almost as amusing as his favorite game of croquet, Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week found it necessary to play his way out of three delicate diplomatic hazards. The slow-speaking Secretary timed his strokes well and executed them neatly but, as golfers have a habit of doing, he felt inclined by week's end to indulge in a dash of reasonably non-diplomatic language...