Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There may be no noticeable change in the primary mole. . . . But the clinical onset may be characterized by enlargement of lymph nodes draining the area. Advancement of the growth from this stage may be slow or rapid...
...bone removed from his foot without the use of anesthetic: "I'll be a fine guinea pig." Dr. Maxson had just discovered that he suffered from syringomyelia, incurable spinal abscess which renders limbs insensate and may require continuous amputations. Bleakly continued Dr. Maxson: "Well, it's a slow disease. It may take 10, 20, 40 years to kill me. And I'm 52. So I'm not bothering my head about it much. Anesthetists work sitting down...
...relief. In the first stage (1933-34), Harold Ickes was the big fish with $3,300,000,000 to spend and lend for public works, and Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was a small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry on his incomplete PWA program and Administrator Hopkins got a bigger slice with which...
...down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty but the French are really bad the worst at Nice I didnt want to believe my eyes." Yet she was never really shocked by the nautiness of man: "I like to stay long enough to flirt...
...much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them believed...