Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to take this opportunity of expressing my objection to the tone of your article concerning Monsignor Ronald Knox's book The Mass in Slow Motion [TIME, Sept. 20]. I have always enjoyed and appreciated the light vein in which you presented our erstwhile serious world affairs, but as a Catholic I wish to affirm that the Mass is a very sacred subject to us, and to hear it alluded to as a "mumble-jumble" is not only disedifying but most revolting...
Reader Talbot's complaint should have been directed to Msgr. Knox. Sample passage from The Mass in Slow Motion: "When there are priests in choir, you know, they are supposed to mumble all this part of the Mass to one another while the priest is getting through it at the altar...
...seems to like him except the voters," was a political byword in Los Angeles. Mayor Bowron, a slow and cautious man, had guided-but seldom led-his city through its most phenomenal decade of growth and development...
Like Cleveland, the Braves are in the World Series largely because of their pitching. To match the Indians' fine staff (Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Bearden, Paige), the Braves had two workhorse throwers, who between them may start in five games. One was big, slow-talking Johnny Sain from Arkansas (with 1948's best record of 24 wins, 15 losses). The other is Left-hander Warren Spahn (15-12), whose fast ball shimmies & shakes. Favored to win: Cleveland...
Harvard's harriers trailed Tufts and Holy Cross yesterday afternoon at Franklin Park, lifting the lid on their 1948 cross country schedule. In addition to a slow course, a truck the runners were following led them 170 yards out of the way and a Tufts freshman fainted just after the start of his race, which went to the Crimson Yardlings...