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Word: slow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hewitt expects his father's horse to win but warned local track fanciers before he left for Kentucky that Phalanx could easily get pocketed on the first turn if he didn't improve his slow starting form. Discouraged by the short odds and Hewitt's advice, his roommates gave him only two dollars and their good wishes to take along to the green grass country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boss's Son Heads For Derby Town, Bets on Phalanx | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...Castle is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, The Trial is a 20th Century Book of Job. Like Job, Joseph K. is a good and upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil. The Trial reports his oncreeping sense of guilt as a human being and the slow progress of that divine, intangible, but inexorable Justice to which he therefore feels that he must submit ("You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tragic Sense of Life | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...forum, "World Government-Is the United Nations Too Slow?" heard Clark Eichelberger, director of the American Association for the United Nations, answer his charges. Eichelberger said that the creation of such a world union would only increase the schism existing between the western powers and Russia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eichelberger, Roberts Clash On U.N. Issue | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

...forum, "World Government-Is The U.N. Too Slow," will begin at 7:30 o'clock in Rindge Tech, where it has moved for tonight's discussion to accommodate a large expected crowd. Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Faculty of Law, will be the moderator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Forum Moves to Rindge Tonight To Hear Eichelberger, Owen Roberts | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

...debate has been raging between the advocates of a stone monument and proponents of a "living memorial" that will further war aims, with holders of every position proffering excellent reasons why his suggestion is the fittest and the most practical. But the University, in the midst of a slow alumni drive to endow the Lamont Library, may look with favor on a simple dedication that can be realized within a very few years...

Author: By Norman S. Poser, | Title: Saltonstall's Group Considers Alternate War Memorial Plans | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

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