Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towers any other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
...faculty to place the advanced French and German examinations of the College Entrance Board on equality with Latin Cp 4 as a satisfaction of the language requirements logically rounds out the recent acceptance for entrance credit of a fourth year at school of a modern language. A slow moving policy of freeing the undergraduate years from most elementary work is thus advanced. And the path of those who are prepared is cleared of the annoying obstacle of a reading examination or college course in a foreign language...
...Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal, blasting and steamshoveling his way through mountains. To look old enough for the job he grew a beard. When he straightened out several miles of the Northern Pacific R.R. in Montana he risked the loss of $100,000 in equipment by discarding the slow mule-pack transportation and using cows through the swift currents of the Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests...
...Senior eight stroked by S.W. Swaim '31 upset the supremacy of the Sophomore B crew stroked by James Lawrence, Jr. '29 by defeating the latter in a slow mile and three quarter race in the Charles River Basin yesterday afternoon...
...players got off to a slow start, and were 11 points behind at the end of the first quarter...