Word: slackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...flicked ' him, right, left. For 13 rounds, the sturdy champion took a dreadful drubbing. Then, with that obstinate, fantastic courage that sometimes animates beaten men, he began to lash out furiously, to force his victorious but weary opponent to duck, cover up, retreat. No use; his arms were slack with fatigue. At the end of the 15th round, the referee lifted the hand of the challenger, Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg, thus giving him the title of the champion, Eddie ("Cannoonball") Martin (real name Edward Martina...
...doctors leaving the country? Where is the rural practitioner?" The discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where his nag took him- down the lane, away from the sombre fields, the farmhouses smelling of disinfectant, toward the city. . . . There was, the physicians agreed, a general shortage of country doctors. Reasons? The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life...
...does not seem as if the local minions of the law would have time for such wholesale tagging as occurs it they were engaged in active pursuit of real criminals. The protection must be slack if a lawbreaker can commit a series of twenty-nine crimes over a period of eight years, and then receive a sentence of one year. This person apparently stands a far better chance in the course than Mr. Undergraduate '26, who gets fined on his first minor infraction...
Other educators, athletic arbiters, sportsmen who gave to the press their ready opinions of Mr. Slack's methods, condemned...