Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Dr. Bremond saw then from 300 yards away had the deliberate horror of a slow-motion nightmare. The dogs closed in on the little girl. No longer could the doctor see Marie-Anne, but he could hear her shrieking. One of the dogs seemed to be worrying at a large rag doll. With their black gowns hiked up, the monks came stumbling and shouting from their quarters. When the dogs were finally hauled & called off, Marie-Anne lay limp and bleeding in the snow...
...Modern air engines have cowlings which both improve streamlining and help cool the engine by concentrating the air taken in at the front. Engines need cooling most when taking off, for then they are generally turning over at full power. But air-speed is slow then, so the stream of cooling air is not so effective as it is later when the plane is flying faster but when the engine needs less cooling because it is throttled down. To meet these shifting conditions the NACA has devised a shifting cowling with two nose slots. Air enters around the propeller...
...limp for days. When he got up, his one idea was to get far, far away. Sea-travel seemed to soothe him; he began to enjoy himself once more. But he was in no hurry to get home. And when he did start back it was on a slow boat, by the roundabout and little-traveled route of Hawaii to Panama...
Dave Shean, Coach Mitchell's slow ball twirler, ascended the mound to start the game for Harvard and had easy going until the seventh inning. Up to that frame the converted outfielder had allowed only two bingles and no runs...
Untested against stiff competition, Shean's slow-ball has successfully baffled Brown and Northeastern batters. Because of his past performances the newly discovered pitcher in certain to start one of the weekend games...