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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that may slow down the revolving door is the knowledge that if he comes to power Charles de Gaulle can stop it altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: What's the Matter with Kelly? | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Religious Dance | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...other six are pros), had brought along good luck in his golf bag. It was his mother-in-law's 15-year-old putter, the same club that had helped Willie win the 1947 British Amateur (TIME, June 9, 1947). Turnesa and his putter were hot on the slow Bermuda greens,* and Ward lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Ten Years | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

Grand Strategy. Had Amsterdam actually accomplished anything? Had the long, slow, painful struggle toward church unity been worth all the effort and all the talk? Christians around the globe applauded the words of one of Amsterdam's leaders, New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: "The need for unity is urgent . . . Our disunity is a denial of our Lord . . . We cannot win the world for Christ with the tactics of guerrilla warfare . . . This calls for general staff, grand strategy, and army. And this means union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Pentecost | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Somerset Maugham thought he could fix that. He had picked "the ten greatest novels."* But he wasn't satisfied with just picking them. Mr. Maugham, blurbed the John C. Winston Co., thought "that the classics would be more widely read ... if they were not too long or too slow in tempo." He pepped things up "by deleting long wearisome passages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Moon & $3.50 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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