Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SCOTLAND-R. H. Bruce Lock-hart-Putnam ($3). In this nostalgic, slow-paced account of his athletic boyhood, Author Lockhart (British Agent) gives first place to relatives and Rugger, with interspersed laments on the decline of bagpipes, kilts, Scotch whiskey, dialect and nationalism, winds up with a stirring defense of schoolmasters. Concluded with this volume, Author Lockhart's autobiographical series adds little to modern letters, but makes an interesting example of Scotch frugality in living one's life twice over...
...place. As Joe pimped around the last curve it looked as though the crowd's favorite was going to win, but Lash whipped out and around to break the tape first, ahead of McClusky. This was the most exciting race of the evening, though Lash's time was comparatively slow, 9:4.6, over six seconds behind Lash's record...
...Like millionaires, impatient of slow Nature...
...years since he was born on an Alabama cotton patch, Negro John Claybrook has by slow degrees made himself one of the most affluent members of his race in the South. He owns a large tenant farm, the bank and general store in its Negro settlement of 300, a fortune estimated at $100,000 and a colored baseball te?m. He lives in Memphis in the height of comfort. Credit for all this worldly success, Negro Claybrook, who never went to school, ascribes to his "mother...
Knudsen, A production man who worked up from a bench to the presidency of General Motors is big-boned, slow-spoken William S. Kaudsen. Last week his summons to the Senate quiz was particularly pointed because he had just laid...