Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bustling American and European salesmen who made the inaugural trip were delighted that they had been spared the hitherto unavoidable, tedious, 48-hour journey from Bagdad, Iraq to Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
Both agreed that working newspapermen must organize, but that agreement did not soften Mr. Robb's criticism of the Guild's "cockeyed"' tactics. He warned the Guild it was making "slow progress" because: 1) it "gives more thought to antagonizing publishers than it doe.s toward promotion of the objects for which it was formed"; 2) it "attempts to discredit all advertising" and boycotts circulation of struck papers; 3) its Guild shop makes "the possession of a Guild card the prime requisite to a man's right to work on a newspaper-more important than character...
...were not of a distinguished nature; however, most of the Yardlings swam in more than one event. L. C. Jones took first in the 50, second in the 100, and third in the 200 free-style, while A. J. O'Connor won the 100 free-style in the slow time of 1:07, and took second...
...single tournament (267 in the Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached the quarter-pole first with winnings of $4,448. A hair's breadth behind was curly-headed Johnny Revolta ($4,390), whose red-hot putting kept him in front of Henry Picard ($4,113), Jimmy Thomson...
Imperial's Empire planes do not fly at night, but as beacons are installed and airports equipped for night flight, Imperial hopes to better its present slow time (average, 60 m.p.h.) between England and Australia, bring it closer to the 90 m.p.h. over-all time of its 50,695-mile route rival. Pan American Airways...