Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boeing Aircraft Co. for a three-engined, 18 passenger airliner. The 130-m.p.h. mahogany trimmed craft became U.A.L.'s western flagship. For 650,000 miles she flew with but one forced landing, without injury to any of her passengers. Out of service since 1933 because she was too slow, NC-228-M was sold fortnight ago to United Maintenance Mechanic Kurt Springer for $400. She will now resume service, this time as a roadside diner, with a lunch counter down her middle...
...seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before the pony is ready to ride, it catches pneumonia, sneaks away to die in the woods, where Jody is found beside the corpse, hammering insanely on the long-since smashed head of a buzzard that was too slow to escape his wild grief...
...Department is about to begin this into force, the lead which History gave in starting the "modified Tutorial" system had been followed, and indeed surpased. The developments which the Economics Departmen is about to begin this year are not epoch making, but they represent another step forward in the slow transition of the Tutorial System as it first existed at Harvard...
Officials have observed the situation for some time. But realization has been slow in arriving that these children are bad because they have never had an athletic field or a football of their own. Eve was never more tempted in Eden than these on the outskirts of a grass plot they must not walk on. It isn't that the children deserve any attention, though of course they do. It is simply that Harvard both holds out the temptation and hides the whipping...
...pinched by the British corn laws (which put a high tariff on imported grain, in favor of England's home-grown wheat), the Irish had been reduced to practical subsistence on the potato, and when that crop failed whole counties were left literally foodless. Governmental remedial machinery was slow, graft-ridden, stupidly conceived. While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed by Wolfe Tone. Emmet...