Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battery candidates have rounded into shape very quickly. Coach Slattery has been particularly impressed by the improvement in E. C. Herrmann '24. J. E. Toulmin '24 has developed a fast curve with a sudden break that is very deceptive. Although D. G. Casto '26 has a slow delivery, his perfect control and change in pace makes him a formidable moundsman. Behind the bat, Thorwald Sanchez '24 has been the outstanding player...
...singles trials for the Jackson Cup were played yesterday on the Jarvis courts, and not one of the seeded men participated. Rain did not interfere with the playing yesterday, some of the courts even being dusty, but the strong wind made lobbing out of the question, and even affected slow services. During the entire afternoon men would delay their service in order to play the point if possible in a lull in the wind...
...Joanna Godden. The Alards were land-poor and stubborn with pride-they could afford to keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...
...makes the descent slow. Duty on spirits is quadrupled; spirits may not be drunk in public; no new bars are to be opened; public drunkenness is taboo. Persons opening new bars are liable to confiscation of their installation, a fine of between $75 and $750 and imprisonment for from six months to two years. Persons using spirituous liquors in public are liable to a fine of between $5 and $75; arrested drunkards can be fined from $35 to $375 or can be imprisoned for from one month to one year...
...million standees could be sent home. The land of the free offers learning to all. So the great seat shortage is only one aspect of a bad situation. There arise attendant evils of double sessions, night work, overcrowding, poor lights and air, underpaid instruction, inadequate equipment. Large classes slow up the work. The dullard drags upon the child of fair promise...