Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of ground. He was ordered to circle once while another plane came in. "Okay," he replied. For four minutes, as required, he flew west, gradually mushing down through the clouds. The ceiling was about 800 ft. and he broke through it in a slow wheeling turn over the little town of Clifton about three minutes after telling the field he was "okay...
...merely as the original of Malachi Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, but if so he will go down fighting. Ever since the publication of James Joyce's big book (1922), legends of Dr. Gogarty's near-mythical person have been stealing round the world like a slow smile. His many friends in Dublin could swear he was flesh-&-blood, but it was not till this week that the struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books...
...board-track season, the Columbian Mile is often the most remarkable. In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors). In 1936, when all the entrants were too cautious to set the pace, he won in the ridiculously slow time of 4:46.8. Last week, the race upheld its tradition. Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five of the six major miles, ran the first half of the race two seconds faster than he did in 1934, but failed by three-tenths of a second to break...
...Emperor Franz Joseph, says Werfel, was one of the few who understood the Idea, one of the few who foresaw its inevitable end. Werfel compares this Austrian idea (a "slowly absorbing and digesting soil . . . organic") favorably with the American ("the seething smelting oven . . . mechanical"), admits he was slow to recognize it; now that it is gone, thinks it had its points...
Humane considerations and the danger of a general war apart, it is unwise to allow the fighting to keep on until one side crushes the other. The progress of the campaigns indicates a slow victory for the rebels; indeed Italy could never allow a Communist country to dominate the western Mediterranean. If the war works itself out, General Franco may become the military head of an impoverished country with the bulk of the working class opposed and the nations which sent him troops clamoring for return favors. Another powder barrel may be put in the magazine of Europe. The alternative...