Word: slow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true, the Kaiser speaks in a different vein, but seven words of truth forced their way out among sentences of sham for public consumption. The Allies have tried to make things serious the decisive for over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year, of all times, with the United States working in accord with these undaunted Allies, may their aims be realized. We have heard of Austrain discontent and German mutiny, but these thin rumors fade into insignificance beside those words of the Emperor of the Germans. Coming from him, they...
...scrimmage with the Radio School yesterday afternoon, the University informal hockey team won an easy victory, 4 to 2. For the third successive time, the ice in the Arena was exceedingly slow and sticky, and fast playing was impossible...
Work has begun on another rink nearby. The condition of the ground makes progress exceedingly slow, but when the rink is ready it will be reserved mainly for scrub games and the Leiter Cup series, but it will also be used as a reserve surface for the University players...
...good prospect of winning. Last Saturday's race showed that the early season handicaps have been overcome. In spite of the small squad, which was enlarged during the season by an effective recruiting campaign, the team has progressed. Interest in football diverted us from watching the steady, though slow, development. Recovering from early, discouraging defeats the 1921 runners have persevered, with resulting success. The victory over Yale was a convincing proof that the Freshmen had made big strides. They are out to make today's contest the climax of the season...
...will doubtless hold true. Thus any man who for sees a possibility, however slight, of his entering active service should begin early to train himself in this fundamental part of his preparation. For languages cannot be learned in a few hours of intense application; it is rather by a slow and unconscious process of assimilation that they are mastered. And for this, nothing is quite so valuable as the reading of foreign newspapers and talking with natives of foreign lands, both of which are being offered by the organizers of the French Room...