Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the efforts of the Graduate Track Advisory Committee the track management has been able to secure a special slow-speed film of track stars in action, which will be shown in the Union next Thursday evening at 6.30. All officers and students of the University are invited to attend this meeting, and every track man is expected to be present. Among the national stars who will be seen in action are F. Kelley in the hurdles, M. McGrath in the hammer-throw, H. Baker in the half-mile, and F. Foss in the pole vault...
...great pity that the United States, by its rejection of the League, is in no position to take any active part in concert with the other powers, toward solving the problem of the Near East. But our people, in company with the nations of Europe, have not been slow to voice their protest against the decision of the allied governments. For over a century the Powers have endeavored to maintain the hopeless anachronism of Turkish rule; and for over a century that policy has brought dissension and wars upon Europe, and terrible suffering upon the subject races of the Empire...
Excelling in teamwork and all around play, the Law School basketball five won an easy victory over the Freshmen yesterday by the score of 27-18. The game was slow and uninteresting, and at no time was there a doubt of the winner. J. W. Remington 2L. featured by his shooting both from the floor and foul line...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
...when he came out of the tavern that day. He was not the Abe we had all known. He was different. There were new lines in his face. It was sorrowful. His steps were slow. He had passed out of his young manhood. When I spoke to him he answered with that gentle dignity now so familiar to all who know him. From that hour he was Abraham Lincoln...