Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HAVEN, CONN., May 8.--Gathering 14 hits for a total of ten runs, the Princeton second baseball team today defeated the Yale seconds in a slow game on Yale Field, the final score being 10 to 3. The batteries for the contest were: Princeton seconds, Thomas and Graves; Yale seconds, Finey, Norton, and Lovejoy...
...With some products, however, it is possible to hold off the sale. But computations in the cotton market slow that in seven out of ten years, any attempt at holding back results in losses...
...Saturday afternoon, doing the mile and seven-eighths distance in sadly slow time, the University crew, for the first time in at least three years, trailed the Freshman eight by three lengths. This is a statement of fact sufficiently startling, but when it is considered that the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year, it is evident that the chances of winning any future races remain no longer on the laps of the high gods--they have tumbled off. Something is obviously wrong...
...thinks that the millions of Russia, unleavened by any considerable number of really enlightened people, can at once produce and operate vast flocks of airplanes, dynamos, anything, in fact that might catch the fancy of her rulers. Until Lenine and his "comrades" realize that the way to progress is slow and laborious, they will have difficulty in persuading the rest of the world that they are fit leaders for Russia...
...This stuff is slow! -R. SIMULANT