Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason was that Alaska's lush but extremely short growing season made its vegetables bloated, watery. Matanuska vegetables, said Senator Thomas, "taste like icicles." Potatoes must be dried in a slow oven before they can be stored even briefly. Alaskans, he declared, generally refuse to eat their native produce...
...last week was about $200,000. Until this year no profit ever showed on the books because surplus cash was promptly plowed back into stock, frequently for rare items which might be called for only once in a decade. Turnover in some lines is extremely slow. Not long ago the company sold a crane skeleton which it had had for 50 years and which still bore a label written by William Hornaday. A skeleton of the extinct passenger pigeon, bought for $1, was sold for $75-but someone figured out that a cash dollar deposited at compound interest...
...rivers whose names read like one of the patriotic catalogs in Whitman's poems. From north to south they are the Waccamaw, the Pee Dee, the Black, the Sampit, the Santee, the Cooper, the Ashley, the Edisto, the Ashepoo, the Combahee, the Savannah. Near the mouths of these slow streams, in a region 150 miles long and about 50 miles wide, were the great rice plantations that before the Civil War made the South Carolina Low Country "the most prosperous area on the continent." In 1850 it had 446 plantations, each producing more than...
...Jersey, Alabama, California-does the law specifically allow newshawks the right of concealing their news sources. Three weeks ago when Arkansas voters went to the polls they were asked to vote on a proposal to revise the State's criminal code to give newshawks immunity. The count was slow coming in for the public was not greatly interested in the referendum. Last week it was finally in. Arkansas had voted 3 to 1 that: "Before any editor, reporter or other writer for any newspaper or periodical, or publisher of any newspaper or periodical shall be required to disclose...
Located on the two south gables of Kirkland House, the two dials are visible only to residents of Eliot whose windows face north on the cement court. They are not of much use even to those who can see them, however, for the eastern one is half an hour slow, while its western mate, over by Boylston Street, lags an hour behind. Perhaps the fact that the faces of the dials are upside down, with 12 o'clock on the bottom, might explain their unfortunate derangement...