Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Records & Recollections. How can a centenarian prove his age? In most cases the only evidence is his own word. Though some Western European countries began keeping good birth records in the 18th century, the U.S. was slow to follow. Massachusetts began in 1841, followed by other New England states. Significantly, there are no reports of incredibly advanced age from areas that keep good birth records. Dr. Belle Boone Beard, a University of Georgia anthropologist, lists 28 ways of proving age. They vary in reliability from college-entrance or graduation records to marriage, insurance and naturalization records. For former slaves like...
...paced trifle with elements of homosexual humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie's blushing "tie twiddle" and exasperated slow burn and Stan's tearless, whimpering crying jag and flip-flopping walk (which he achieved by cutting the soles off his shoes). For some reason, women do not appreciate the humor as much as men do. Unlike Chaplin, who was ever the champion of the innocent heroine, Laurel...
...maintained a calm attitude about the edict, but warned that "if allowed to stand for the long pull, this restriction on our earnings prospects would inevitably slow down our efforts to provide more and better communications service to the public." Left unsaid was whether the company planned to appeal the decision. Under the FCC order, reductions on interstate and international calls will go into effect...
...airline industry has soared far past the railroads in the passenger business, but so far it has been low and slow on freight. Of all cargo transported in the U.S., 43% is still carried on the rails, only 1% in the air (trucking gets 23%, shipping 15% and pipelines 18%). So it was a neat move last week when the Flying Tiger Line, the nation's biggest all-cargo airline, reached into railroading's highest corporate ranks to name Wayne M. Hoffman, 44, the No. 2 man at New York Central, as its new board chairman. In making...
...Glaser and Miss Walker can move toward climax and depth in the confines of a single scene. But little holds the scenes together, and when in the third act the play enters its third hour at the same time as the pace of the scenes goes a little too slow, a new fog of fatigue creeps over Dostoevsky...