Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpretation of the charming maniac, Danny, Was breathlessly slow, building up suspense to a horribly incvitable climax. It is a compliment to his ability that, once the climax was reached and passed, the still held the audience's interest through to the final curtain...
Andover's Sosman heads Dick Mane-gold for the running guard berth and though a bit slow in leading interference looks good. At the other guard is Russell Stannard, 180 pound Middlesex star, while the tackles remain in the hands of Bob Fisher and Tom Rogstad, all of whom acquitted themselves well in Saturday's game. Forte remains at left end, where he is pressed by Henry Heyburn...
...Lawyer bongs and clatters like a bowling alley, but instead of ripping off strikes & spares, the pins go down only two or three at a time, and the pin boys are much too slow in setting them up again. The show has laughs, but never (as a farce must) piles up its laughter; everybody works a little too hard, tries to be a little too crazy. It's the old George Abbott formula minus the old George Abbott form: quite a drop from the headlong days of Three Men on a Horse and Room Service, when in the world...
...been looking to shipbuilding to absorb thousands upon thousands of unemployed workers, began ast week to single out the shipbuilding industry as one of the tightest bottlenecks in he way of further advances in production. They noted that, whereas the bottleneck in steel (TIME, Oct. 2) might slow down an unhealthy scramble for unneeded steel, a bottleneck in shipbuilding would certainly slow down one of the key capital goods industries they have been relying on to take steel off the market-if Congress decides that the U. S. does need ships...
...greatest, most tragic failure of the Christian Church in modern times was that it was unable to halt the slow march of Christendom toward World War II. The World Council of Churches, a federation of the greatest non-Roman communions, was born too late to help; it is not even yet operating officially. Unofficially, the Council last July summoned a "board of strategy" of 32 men and two women to meet in a Swiss hotel, draw up a program of Christian international strategy. A long statement of their views was published last week in The Christian Century, with an introduction...