Word: slow
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...addition to the University Museum is now four stories in height Rapid progress has been made during January. On the other hand, the work on the Engineering Building and the Semitic Museum has been very slow. Only the first story of the Museum has been built. Two stories of the Engineering Building have been completed, and iron trusses for the floors have been placed in position. The work on both is, however, still confined to the exterior, so that it is subject to frequent interruptions from cold weather...
...first games of the class hockey championship series played at Spy Pond yesterday, the Juniors defeated the Seniors by the score of 2 to 1, and the Freshmen defeated the Sophomores by the score of 1 to 0. Although the scores were close, the games in both cases were slow, chiefly owing to the fact that they were played on the open ice and not on a rink as usual. This caused a great waste of time while the puck was being brought back to a playable position, and, while it allowed some brilliant individual work on the sides...
...University basketball team defeated the Freshman team last evening in the Gymnasium by a score of 19 to 12. The University team was composed chiefly of substitutes, and played a slow and listless game, especially in the second half when the Freshmen scored 6 points to their opponents...
...slow uplift in German literature from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century was explained by the indirect reception of humanism in Germany. Humanism came in, not as worship of the beautiful, but as a species of didacticism, which was monopolized by scholars. The people neither received the fruits of it, nor were they interested in the resulting literature. Luther's Bible and the "Volkslied" represent however a marvelous development, which show what might have been reached under more favorable conditions. The "language sodalities," for ameliorating the language itself, are a further example of movements which were too exclusive...
Some of the leading nations of Europe, such as Prussia, the North German Union, Austria and Belgium were slow to recognize the position maintained by the United States and Great Britain did not finally yield until 1870, the date of our treaty of naturalization with that country...