Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most of the Rothstein enterprises were deep in debt. His election bets were calculated to pull him out of a bad hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in debt as it could be smooth in velvet. The creditors grew restive. They persuaded George McManus, whom Rothstein trusted, to call him over for a "creditors' meeting" one evening last month. Rothstein got the call in the little restaurant and started over to the Park Central Hotel where McManus...
...tentative announcement of the formation of an intramural hockey league marks one more stage in the present seeking of an ideally exercised University. The process toward attaining the end of athletics for all has been a somewhat slow one, and even with hockey at last gathered into the fold of intra Harvard sports, the curriculum of physical activities is not filled...
...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
...University first scored after six minutes of play, when Garrison, who had just replaced Holbrook, made the goal unassisted, dribbling from center ice. Shortly after Giddens made a slow dash the length, got free, but Riley, the Technology goalie and the outstanding player of his team, made a brilliant save...
...tooth looking toward the second. The peak of Grepon is composed of rock, and though it is relatively small it offers plenty of opportunity for skillful climbing. The second reel of the ascent shows much of the technical difficulties of mountaineering and this one will be run again in slow motion at the end of the showing...