Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra are giving an orchestral program at Symphony Hall tonight at nine o'clock. Brahms's Academic Festival Overture will be played as well as the slow movement and scherzo from Professor Hill's String--Sinfonietta, and Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" (second suite). The concert will close with Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Members of the orchestra under Dr. Koussevitzky will give a program of eighteenth century music at four o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Sanders Theatre. Bach's Suite No. 2 in B minor for Flute and Strings, Haydn's Symphony in G major...
Screenwriters Charles Brackett and Edwin Knopf permit their gusto in these complications to slow up the story, but occasional lapses from pace and over-energetic mugging on the part of the Pett family are not serious faults. Best of the scenes is the one in which Jim scrapes acquaintance with the heroine by apologizing for the fumbling attempts of an amiably drunken friend (Robert Benchley) to do likewise...
...MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis...
...second. When the neutron hits a nucleus it either bounces off, transforming the atom instantly into another element, or is captured, producing a swollen, unstable atom which spits out the awkward excess for seconds, hours, sometimes days in the form of radiation or particles. Dr. Fermi found that slow neutrons were more easily captured than fast ones, worked out the equation for the slowing effect of hydrogen nuclei. Since the hydrogen atom, having only one outside electron, consists almost entirely of nucleus, it is excellent for braking fast neutrons, and substances rich in hydrogen such as water, paraffin...
...season finds these huge holdings reduced to approximately 3,500,000 bales. . . . Not having been slow to criticize Government entrance into the cotton market, it is a pleasure now to commend the wisdom of decision and the skill of execution in liquidation of Government cotton holdings...