Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ours is not like that," said the conservative economist. "Our plan makes for slow action, probably for hesitation if you please, for caution and with resultant failure to secure that degree of appreciation, that quick action which might be very well expected if an investment trust were conducted, let us say, by Mr. Barney Baruch...
...short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
...Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics...
...second President of Harvard complained of those who desired "to pull down schools of learning, or which is all one to take away the oyl from the lamps, denying or withholding maintenance from them." The acorn had been planted, the young tree was alive, but its growth was slow beyond the expectation of those who had brought the seed to a wild, new continent...
...comprehensible only in terms of its history. For well on a thousand years there have been universities in the western world. During the Middle Ages the air they breathed was permeated with the doctrines of a universal church; since the Reformation in Protestant countries these have undergone a slow and varied metamorphosis. But the essence of the university tradition has remained constant. From the first foundations to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are: first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general...