Word: slow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...second period was slow, with no outstanding plays except for the sensational save of C. D. Draper '32, who came out of his position at goal guard to stop a shot by P. N. Clark...
...plan is just one more symptom of the development of sport as a science. The slow-motion movies, carefully charted diagrams, athletic association magazines and publicity bureaus, highly-paid coaches who have learned their trades thoroughly in schools of experience and theory, and all the rest of the vast modern machinery of athletics are part of the same movement. One can develop this most recent addition to overemphasis, that boogey-man of undergraduate publications, or one can praise the ingenuity of the idea...
...were mentioned as the most critical; and His Majesty's condition of last week was described thus: "It will be apparent to medical men that not only the severity and the length of the infection but the exhaustion resulting therefrom must make progress slow and difficult...
Last week Chinese students at Nanking got out of patience even with the rapid progress now being made by Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang. They knew that he was negotiating with Japanese Consul General Shichitaro Yada; and they thought both negotiators a little too polite and slow. Suddenly student exuberance boiled over, and a mob rushed to hurl brickbats and curses at the walls which sheltered Dr. Wang and M. Yada. Loomed a diplomatic incident of gravest sort. Only quick action by one of the Nationalist "Big Three"-Chiang, Feng or Yen (TIME, Dec. 24)-could stop the brickbatting...
Most glittering and ceremonious of festivals was the last Russian coronation, May, 1896. Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...