Word: snailing
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...will be a problem in itself. If that government is dominated or controlled by the Nazis, the German attitude will almost certainly make a conference futile. Since France could hardly take part without assurances from Germany in regard to reparations, which no Nazi government could possibly give. And the snail-like foreign policy of this country would in that case withdraw once again into its shell...
...snow was waist-deep, the cold bitter. On one trail a ledge gave way, the leading car hung suspended bridge-like over a deep gorge. Cables extricated it. Over Tragbal Pass, 11.560 feet high, the two cars struggled, then across Burzil Pass, 13,775 feet up. Weeks of snail-like progress brought them to Gilgit, 150 miles northwest of Srinagar. Leader Haardt considered the higher mountains before him, decided the two cars never would get over them. On 200 yaks and ponies the party went on, leaving the cars in Gilgit-first wheeled vehicles ever to reach that mountain outpost...
Whelk, Trifling incidents make comedy at such serious gatherings. Professor Henry Hurd Swinnerton needed to display a whelk, a kind of sea snail, during his zoological lecture. He could not find his whelk. He searched his coat and waistcoat pockets, crawled under his lecture table, peered around the platform. He finally found the whelk in his hip pocket. Mountaineering Etiquet, Climbing Mt. Everest where atmospheric oxygen is so scant that mountaineers faint, is largely a matter of respiratory engineering, of providing light-weight tanks of oxygen for the climbers. Captain N. E. Odell, survivor of a tragic, ineffectual attempt...
Lazy Lou'siana Moon and The Moon is Low (Columbia)?Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians take their jazz sentimentally and at snail's pace but his instrumentation is teasing, appealing...
...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...