Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where schools are controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
Hollywood called Jezebel "terrific," predicted it would slow Mr. Selznick's Wind down to a breeze. Some wag suggested that the only one who might play Scarlett O'Hara after Bette Davis' performance was Mr. Paul Muni. Fact was that Bette Davis had gone full sail before the wind...
...Fernald, winner of the 110-yard high hurdles in the Oxford-Cambridge Meet, has not had the same success on the winter boards. Shields and Day, Yale Sophomores, have succeeded in dethroning Donovan and Watson of Dartmouth while Fernald has not fulfilled expectations by graduating to that rank. A slow starter, he may come into his own over the longer distance outdoors. Fred MacIsaac is another Sophomore who should strengthen Crimson track. In the B.A.A. Games he cleared 13 feet...
...succeeded in forcing the official Kremlin physicians, who care for Stalin's health, to cause the deaths of other Bolsheviks. One of these might have been Nikolai Yezhov, 42, today the secret police chief under whom the present trial was prepared. Yezhov, it appeared, had suffered from "slow poisoning" and would certainly have died had not the plot against him been discovered...
Other projects undertaken by the Film Service, is the making of high speed and unperceptively slow speed films. This makes it possible to observe the breaking of a bulb as well as the growing of a plant. At present it is making a print for the Harvard Forest as well as the fatigue laboratories...