Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wild Williwaw. But the era of good feeling ended almost at once in the howl of Alaska's biggest, longest political storm. After World War I, the Territory had suffered a slow decline. Its population had dwindled, and did not begin to rise again until the 1930s. Its lopsided economy was tied almost completely to fish and gold-a salmon industry owned in Seattle and a gold industry owned in the East. Alaska had been administered chiefly from dusty Washington pigeonholes by bureaucrats who had never seen a skate of halibut gear or a dredge's tailing pile...
Next fall, as a reluctant concession to the Ministry of Education, Eton will admit two state-supported boys - but only as an "experiment." Says Eton's 74-year-old Provost Sir Henry Marten, who was Princess Elizabeth's private tutor in history: "We English are very slow, and we never rush into anything...
...March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant question...
...Grau had made enough mistakes to rule him right out of the 1948 presidential race, for which his friends once tried to back him despite the constitutional ban on reelection. Hasty critics overlook Grau's educational program (236 schools built, more building), his high-capacity (if slow-building) housing and public-works plans, and his own defense that "never in history has there been...
...reason for this slow, almost worldwide malnutrition: the total destruction of World War II (measured in dollars) was seven times greater than that of World...