Word: slow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...characteristic deep-sea animals-fishes, jelly-fish, corals, etc. A complete account is given of the development of the apparatus and of the methods employed in dredging. Several improvements were invented by Prof. Agassiz. The results of his study show that the changes of elevation have been very slow and slight, with very little disturbance of the strata, and that the eras of depositions, from the Eocene to the present time, have been marked by the same processes which, even now. may be observed in action...
...Collady-A fast overhand bowler with considerable bump, and a slow but sure run-getter. A Belmont...
...Goodwin-A very fast bowler, effective on a slow wicket, and a hard hitter. Has played in the Philadelphia club for two years...
...growth of athletics has assisted considerably in producing this change for the better. There is no more conservative body than the undergraduates of a college. They are slaves to tradition, and think that because a thing has existed for some time it must always continue. Therefore all change is slow, but when a move is once made, the effects are very lasting, and this is as true of right influences as of wrong ones. Students are too apt to regard academic life as something different from life after graduation-they think that when they leave college they will start...
...whole, neither team played a good game, Harvard being careless and slow in passing the ball, and New York making no systematic attack, but confining her attempts to secure a goal at long shots from the middle of the field. The teams were made up as follows...