Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First discord came when photographers asked the girls to pose so that they would reveal their legs at full length. "But we are not show people," objected one of the few who spoke English. "We are artistes! Artists of the ballet!" The general public at first seemed as slow to understand as the persistent cameramen. After a gilded first night (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934), the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt...
...where he has made rapid progress. After this big four Coach Mitchell has little proved infield material to look at. Carr, a classy fielder but weak hitter, who was with the Jayvees last year, Shean, a Sophomore, making the Princeton trip, John Sullivan, another second year man, steady but slow, and Mike Hovenanian, in and outer; these complete the roster of inner circle...
...1/30 atmospheric pressure. Driving mechanism consists essentially of two turbines, the size of thread spools, against which oil is pumped at 800 lb. per sq. in. pressure. To prevent overheating of bearings, 45 minutes are required to work the rotor up to operating speed, 45 minutes more to slow it down. The rotor is oval in shape because an oval is less likely to fly apart than a circle...
...black with people for miles on either shore. The two most powerful tugs in Glasgow puffed importantly about the stern. Six lesser tugs stood by. At 9:30 a. m. the bridge gave the first order: "Let go!" Then down to the engine room went the signal DEAD SLOW ASTERN. All up & down the river whistles were tooting, crowds cheering. But there was hardly a sound from the shipyard workmen. As the steel cables snaked ashore they saw their 7,000 jobs go out with the ship.* The problem now was to move a ship a fifth of a mile...
...self-confidence started him off in the Confederate Army as a brigadier-general. "Six feet tall, broad as a door, hairy as a goat," Longstreet was compact of ambition and stubbornness. The first summer's campaign showed that he was a first-rate defensive fighter but unaggressive and slow on the attack...