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...names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand. "If I contradict myself here as a Chinese." shrugs...
Plodding wearily along at a snail's pace on the road that winds through Spanish hill-country were two travellers. Dust-caked and grimy, leading by the halter an aged nag, heads bowed, and pace ambling, the pair presented a picture of human dejection in the golden rays of the afternoon sun on that highway leading from the nation's capital to the borders of France. It was obvious that some blows had been dealt the men's fortunes, for every movement in their demeanor was a sign of discouragement, disappointment, defeat...
...soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps Seaman tore like the wind scarcely 15 sec. behind Rosemeyer. Before the finish he stopped for a fuel lap, let Rosemeyer streak home for the $20,000 first prize. The winner averaged 82½ m.p.h., snail slow compared to the 229 m.p.h. he recently clocked on a ten-mile European stretch, but fast compared to Nuvolari's 1936 average of 65.9 m.p.h...
...high good humor he let the Press in on the news that citizens were criticizing the Works program for its snail's-pace start, for its prospect of amounting to no more than $4,000,000,000 worth of boondoggling and leaf-raking. Just to prove that it would not be boondoggling he was going to read a list of the projects approved day before yesterday. Let the newshawks stop him when they got tired. The President picked up a twelve-page sheaf of papers, commenced to read such items as the following...
...huge Czechoslovakian and a slight South African were the foreigners the galleries watched most at Forest Hills. Annoyed at being made to play his second-round match in an intermittent shower, Roderick Menzel amused himself by uttering Czechoslovakian epithets, tottering about at snail's pace between points. He was put out in the fourth round. Vernon Gordon Kirby, whose father fought in the Boer War, first gained world recognition when he defeated Baron von Cramm to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. At Forest Hills last week he put Frank Shields out in the quarterfinals, only...