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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul W. Sears '37 and Dana W. Hayward '37, the Gold Coasters conquered a weak Leverett squad, 36-25, in a slow meet the same afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

...film is often ponderous and slow in its effort to drive home its principal point--that misled patriotic groups, who try to take law and order into their own hands, are often the most dangerous. But withal, it is an intensely dramatic, gripping account, doubly forceful through its bluntness...

Author: By T. H. C., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/13/1937 | See Source »

This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ice for Fire | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Philadelphia's ministers that Coach Harman's Biblical team is no publicity stunt but the nub of a talk he has delivered at dinners and to young churchgoers some 200 times in the past six years. Son of a Lutheran minister and brother of another, bulky, slow-speaking Harvey Harman, 36, speaks once a week for nothing, as often as he is additionally booked for pay. Says he: "I like to help out the preachers, because they have a hard time holding the young people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Team | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...reinforcements, tried to whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in an hour ten ships did not succeed in forming line, although the leading vessel went dead slow." In final target practice, after a furious fusillade, the target was unscathed. The morale of the fleet was not improved by these revelations, nor by the increasingly bad food, which caused a successful mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epic of Defeat | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

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