Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is from the pen of no less a person than William Somerset (Of Human Bondage) Maugham. Melodramatic in outline, declamatory in some lines, slow in the first act, it remains not a profound play, but a sensitive, skillful...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize Winner, chided the New York Chamber of Commerce because businessmen in general are slow in applying scientific research in their affairs...
...Cagle, the Army halfback, rush through the little men in front of him. Instead, whenever he took the ball, a flock of Notre Dame players started at him like birds which he could not brush away. In the second half it was not Cagle's brilliance but the slow rush of the whole team that brought the ball up the field for a touchdown; somehow Notre Dame struggled back again with it and scored six points to tie. Then at the end of the last quarter Rockne sent in a substitute lineman called Johnny O'Brien, who caught...
...Penn played Harvard on a slow field; but the Penn team was mightier than the sward...
...fall season nearly three hundred men have pulled an oar in some crew during the weeks just now coming to a close. The informality of the University squad and the flexible number of possible class crews present an easy opportunity for all who have felt the fascination of a slow swing or the rugged vigor of a powerful forty two find a position commensurate with his ability...