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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fast and Slow Films Made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Films to Speed Up Slow Readers Near Completion; Device Developed by Film Service Will Be Tested | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

...Yellow River in their advance toward the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line" were reported "broken up" by bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Invigorated | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse than anyone else in the world, hunch money last week was going down fast on Sande-trained Stagehand. But seasoned railbirds figured that the Sande protege, a slow starter, would get into a jam in the crowded field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stagehand | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Lamar played Freshman basketball, swam the 50, 100, and 220 free-style in what he says were pretty slow times, played four years of first-string football as tackle and back, and was undefeated in four years of college boxing bouts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar as Past Master of Boxing Is Well Qualified to Coach Ring Science | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...disregarding warning signs, he leaned against the bars of Gargantua's cage to rest. Gargantua reached through, got no toe hold but wrenched Circusman North's left arm into the cage, bit & wrung it until Trainer Richard Kroner, pounding the gorilla with an iron stake, distracted its slow attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Gargantua & Visitor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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