Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were very slow. The rain took no notice and kept pouring down. At length Mr. Mellon, still bent over with trowel poised, said patiently: ''Please hurry, won't you? You know, I'm not laying the whole building...
Roll me over easy, Roll me over slow...
...next play produced two more runs. Gilligan poked a grounder at pitcher White whose throw home to cut off Donaghy went wide of its mark, letting in the third baseman and Ticknor, while Gilligan scampered to the hot corner. He subsequently stole home when White offered the batter a slow ball...
...first half of the telegraphic golf match with the University of Oregon the Harvard players were badly beaten. This was doubtless due in a large part to the fact that the Belmont Springs Course was very soft with slow greens and long grass whereas the Eugene. Oregon, course, as stated in their telegram, was hard with conditions excellent for play...
Hereby has Harvard, with a reputation for doing consistently right by its faculty, set a precedent that the rest of the universities on the Carnegie list must follow. Comparatively low salaries, painfully slow promotion, and constant demands for more and more esoteric research have already brought the teaching profession into bad enough repute without adding the prospects of a penniless old age. Some financial provision must be made for the retirement of devoted servants who have divided their activity between expounding the learned book and worrying over the account book...