Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thursday the Yale team won a rather slow game when it overcame an early Harvard lead to win, 7 to 4. Captain Kent playing at number 3, starred for the University on the offensive. Princeton also defeated the University on Saturday, 6 to 1 in a closer game than the score would indicate. Both teams showed excellent horsemanship and it was again Captain Kent who made the only Harvard score...
...sure, Judge Kenyon of Iowa measured up to the specification of Westerner and Progressive. Republican Senators, with the coming campaign in mind, were not slow in urging Judge Kenyon's appointment. But the President considered. One evening he sent a telegram to Manhattan, and next morning Harlan Fiske Stone, Dean of the Columbia Law School, breakfasted at the White House. A bevy of Senators-Lodge, Borah, Watson, Curtis, Moses and others-were in attendance and talked with Dean Stone. At 10 A. M. Dean Stone's nomination was announced. At noon the nomination was before the Senate...
...progress of the class fund has been very slow. In the four remaining days before vacation, three times the amount collected in the past ten days must be handed in to the secretary treasurer in order that the fund may be sufficient. J. R. Burke will briefly address the Smoker for the purpose of arousing more enthusiasm among the candidates for the Finance Committee...
During the vacation, the Freshman crews will row twice each day. Since the first race is scheduled three weeks after the close of the Spring recess. Coach Shaw has decided to have practice during that period because the crews have been unusually slow in developing...
...slow" British have invested $200,000,000 in the Wembley Exhibition. London will offer the biggest thing of its kind that the world has ever seen...