Word: slacked
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...City," London's financial district, opinions were divided. Some thought the move perfectly natural, as the London market was heavily depressed by industrial insecurity, slack trade, swamped by War loans and made expensive for borrowers by the recent return to a gold standard. Others naturally could not bear to see the U. S. taking the place of banker to the British Commonwealth of Nations. Neither was Australian opinion unanimously behind the move...
...believe that if a strike or a suspension occurs on Sept. 1, 10,000,000 tons of anthracite will be available for consumption. The fact is that less than 10% of this amount is suitable for furnaces and stoves, and that 9,000,000 tons represent steam sizes and slack, which compete with the bituminous product...
...season of slack news, reporters snooped about the White House industriously searching for crumbs...
...this one, but an adolescent named Jimmy Slattery,* who knocked out Jack ("Bulldog") Burke, Dempsey's best sparring partner, in a round and a half of the third preliminary. He was so fast that he never lifted his hands from his sides to parry, struck with his wrists slack and whippy until the moment of impact. The beauty of his bright, merciless speed made grizzled gentlemen at the ringside mutter of Kid McCoy, of Jim Corbett. They heard that this Slattery was still growing. "Three years from date . . . ," they said...
...official awards of athletic insignia anywhere from three to six months after the players had won their letters. Upon occasions it made a timid recommendation. It took charge of the Freshman class until first year officers were elected. But beyond that limited sphere it accomplished little. Interest was so slack that it was with difficulty that quorums were obtained for its meetings...