Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left Bank students the law was a godsend. Three hundred of them set up shop in vacant classrooms, answered as many as 50 calls a day, mostly from addled landlords. Said one young philosophy major: "We get 125 francs an hour. At first we were slow, but now we can do a whole house in an hour and a half. Anyhow, it beats baby-sitting...
...breeders' woes were echoed by fur retailers. In a season when fur sales should be booming, business was so slow that retail prices were being cut as much as 50%. One big reason for buyer resistance was the 20% federal...
...Three weeks ago, following a "small stroke," 68-year-old H. L. Mencken was admitted to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Last week the hospital reported "slow improvement...
...Latin American capital was jittery about how the cavalry would vote. Latest to buzz with alarms and rumors was Quito, capital of Ecuador, where President Galo Plaza Lasso was tiffing with his own party (Movimiento Civico Democrático National). Hottest rumors: 1) army officers were angry over slow promotions; 2) aviation officers were angry over delayed pay raises; 3) Socialist leaders were trying to organize an anti-government movement among noncoms. TIME'S Quito correspondent cabled: "The government is not shaky in the sense that it could fall-unless the army intervened...
...monster that hopped sluggishly under the giant ferns and spreading horsetail trees which later became Pennsylvania's famous coal. But it was doing all right for its period: vertebrates had only recently learned how to live on the land at all. Short hops were a big improvement on slow, fishlike floundering...