Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then after rehearsing his objectives in Court reform and repeating his argument that a constitutional amendment would be too slow, he demanded a fight to the finish...
...Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century-plant. Ben Stad called on her to dance the slow-moving steps of the Middle Ages at his Philadelphia Festival of the Society of the Ancient Instruments last spring...
...Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button has been pushed for a certain floor. Of this type are the Otis elevators (capable...
...were unheard of in Europe before 1835, when the first jute yarns were turned out by flax weavers in Dundee, Scotland. Twenty years later most Dundee weavers had given up flax for jute and an Englishman had shipped the first jute spinning machinery to Calcutta. British merchants were not slow to recognize the possibilities in Bengal's ideal climate and magnificent supply of cheap labor (Bengal, with about 50,000,000 inhabitants, is the most densely populated province in India). Working farms of two or three acres apiece, Bengal natives took more land out of rice, on which they...
...caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps Seaman tore like the wind scarcely 15 sec. behind Rosemeyer. Before the finish he stopped for a fuel lap, let Rosemeyer streak home for the $20,000 first prize. The winner averaged 82½ m.p.h., snail slow compared to the 229 m.p.h. he recently clocked on a ten-mile European stretch, but fast compared to Nuvolari's 1936 average of 65.9 m.p.h...