Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next most disturbing influence was that of Edward R. Burke, who three years ago was elected to the Senate with the support of Nebraska's Democratic boss, Arthur Mullen. Slow-moving, stocky, a lawyer out of Harvard Law School, he first won national attention during the campaign of 1934. President Roosevelt at Green Bay quoted one of Burke's rare purple passages ("The New Deal is an old deal as old as the earliest aspirations of humanity for liberty and justice and the good life. . . . It is new as the Declaration of Independence was new and the Constitution...
...Some Chevrolet malcontents have also resorted to the "slow down" cutting production from 400 to 250 units per hr. by stopping work at regular intervals...
They will be able to add ten years or more to their lives. . . . Heavy water would behave in the system like ordinary water a few degrees lower in temperature. It would reduce and slow functional processes, thus reducing bodily wear and tear...
...home "too lonely." He is almost 6 ft. tall, 170 lb., fond of practical jokes of which his fellow professionals frequently make him the victim. Accused of being dull in his love scenes, Ameche has given cinemagazines the following alibi: "Valentino was the impetuous type . . . then he would slow up and make the ladies chase him. Mrs. Ameche would not care for this type of lover...
...enterprise of such magnitude unprecedented problems and troubles have arisen. Thirty-six men have been killed in accidents, the last two on consecutive days in March. To slow down this fatality rate, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has instituted safety-first and first-aid instruction for the 6,000 employes. To quiet fears that the Columbia River salmon run would be ruined, plans for hatching and artificial propagation below the dam have been formulated...