Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effective technique, can now "do an experiment a day instead of two a year," according to Dr. Dubos. They can also diagnose new TB cases, where X rays are useless, in a few days instead of two months. Previous methods of cultivating the bacteria were not only slow but they usually modified the organism so as to make the experiments inconclusive...
...arranger and two lyricists set to work. From Mendelssohn's Ruy Bias Overture and the slow movement of the Violin Concerto in E Minor they pasted together a scene in an "opera" they billed as Marie Antoinette; from Liszt's Les Préludes, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 and Liebesträume they contrived another called My Country. Sample lyrics...
...inventor, Cambridge Chemist Harry Hurst, 34, claimed that he had got rid of the defects in DDT (see below). DDT is 1) slow, and 2) deadly to good as well as bad insects. Dr. Hurst said that some of his mixtures seem to be highly selective, attacking pests but leaving useful insects unharmed. He had also found Activated DDT lethal to some bothersome insects, notably cockroaches, which are not bothered much by DDT alone...
...Boss. Some of the training camp second-guessers thought G.I. Joe's come back pace was too slow after four years in the Army. He had boxed only 113 rounds against 235 for Conn. But he hit the road every morning at 6 a.m. to run and walk six miles (Conn ran only two miles), caught up on sleep by dozing through his rubdowns, drank only bottled mineral water...
...miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...