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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a Parrot. But, even after their historic flight, recognition was slow. Not until 1908 did the U.S. Army, and the general public, realize that the flying machine was a practical fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Begetter of an Age | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Showing the effects of the exam layoffs, the freshman and jayvee sixes both were slow-starting and poorly co-ordinated, enabling their rivals to match and rematch each goal they made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling, JV Hockey Squads Trim Nearby High Schools | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...example, it required a slow-motion camera to discover that Sonja sometimes did not cleanly complete her Axel Paulsens (a revolution-and-a-half, taking off from one foot and landing on the other): she disguised the last part of the turn so expertly that the people never saw the difference. Sonja put on a tremendous show. While she performed, her businesslike father made sure everybody knew it by bustling about handing out autographed, postcard-size pictures of the champion. So far, Barbara Ann is a mile behind Sonja in showmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Queen | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...stave off slow strangulation, "the best in the business" began cutting itself into wax last year. Lately, however, their vanguard in the commercial recording field. The Ivy League Band Album, has begun to lose ground. Dartmouth, with recording plans of its own in progress, has cut the Crimson transcriptions from its campus, and, Princeton, for no apparent reason, seems to be following suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Seek Money to Support Trips to Princeton, Army Contests | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...College's long, slow return to "normalcy" begins tomorrow at 8:30 o'clock. For the first time since the war more men will leave Cambridge this term, diplomas in hand, than are expected to plow through the traditional registration line at Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Term Stars Return to Normal For Enrollments | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

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