Word: slow
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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SECOND CREW.McDonald, stroke, 154, rows up and down, goes back too far and is slow in starting and in coming...
Soutter, No. 7, 139 1-2, does not come up with necessary snap, slow all through...
Lane, No. 4, 159, is slow all through and is unsteady at the finish...
...explain present facts by analogy with past facts. He cited Charles Booth's book as an example of study on the conditions of manhood, with practical suggestions for the relief of distress, which did not pretend to go into theory which should settle all possible problems. Certainly this slow yet practical method has more promise in it, than the theorizing which attempts to settle all things at one sweep...
...from the Boston Daily Advertiser of October 18: "This addition will make the Cornell Law Library, 23,000 volumes, the largest law school collection in this country." The Harvard Law Library at present numbers upwards of 30,000 volumes, and has had the great good fortune that comes from slow growth and careful selection during a period covering nearly a century. It is the equal, if not the superior, of any strictly law library in this country. I fully appreciate the value of the Moak collection and consider it remarkable that a busy lawyer during his life time should have...