Word: slack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captain told me, for instance, that there is practically no coaching at all in tennis and that the selection of the team is often strongly influenced by favoritism on the part of the captain. I have also heard from cricket and soccer men that both organization and training are slack as far as the college branches of their sports are concerned. The interesting fact, though, is not that they admitted the organization of these sports to be loose, but that they complained of its being too loose. For I think that it may safely be said that as a rule...
...slack year for national heroes was 1929. The public prints lacked new and spectacular performers to make the public hero-conscious. But the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, only U. S. hero-rewarding organization except the Government, found no dearth of candidates. Last week it recognized 51 acts of heroism, more than twice last year's number...
...does not take a war to keep a Secretary of War busy. Though it was Washington's slack season, the present occupant of the Cabinet's No. 3 post?James William Good?last week was more than usually occupied...
...last week, with Congress adjourned, the great summer exodus from the capital was well under way. The Government was running on slack steam. President Hoover was, as he put it, "condemned" to remain in the White House by public business. The Cabinet, always loyal to a new President, accepted condemnation with him. Not so the emissaries of foreign powers...
...Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most inglorious one; indeed, worse than driving geese to water," but at least...