Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva British Delegate Mr. William Shepherd Morrison said of Economic Pacification: "We are likely to prefer-it is our British way-a pragmatic and practical approach, slow but sure." This, however, is not the Australian way, and that Dominion's vigorous representative, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, roundly declared to the Assembly's Economic Committee: "The progress of Science in the last 15 years has made possible efforts of production which would enable a higher standard of living to be reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today...
Despite the quintet of goals the team's passing and shooting was slow and inaccurate with the resultant loss of numerous other scoring opportunities...
...when the foundations buckled. The town's $80,000 schoolhouse is considered in danger. A farmer named Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground, by diverting a creek into a shaft. All failed...
College, he plans to teach music when he graduates next spring. On trips like last week's he carries two cases-one for track clothes, one for his cornet. Doctors are interested in his slow pulse-44 at rest, 60 after mild exercise...
...ordinary patients, Drs. Stewart, Hoffman & Ghiselin operate the moving picture camera at a standard speed of 16 frames a second, or 32 frames for the cycle. For unusually thick patients, through whom x-rays do not penetrate easily, the operators slow the camera twelve or eight frames a second. Thin people can stand 24 frames a second. The four chambers of their hearts then can be seen contracting on the projection screen...