Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whistle the Seniors though long in the water and powerful in the pull through showed a dangerous tendency of shooting the tail which caused a noticeable check. The Junior Crew, likewise weak at the start, were a trifle slow in the catch and sloppy on the slide. Meanwhile, the Sophomores were hampered by a crab at No. 7 which caused a slight panic. Crabs at Nos. 5 and 6 entered the boat later on in the race. Ragged as was the start the boats tore through the water. The crowd roared advice from the shore but the cox after several...
...Sever bell jangles twice. The student goes back to his room, collects his suitcase and overcoat and sprints for the subway. Just twenty minutes to make the train at South Station! In the station he is informed politely but firmly that the train has left your watch is slow...
...Reed. The thinly-populated Southwest echoed all week with the slow, formidable voice of Candidate Reed. Partly to overshadow Candidate Smith, partly to get credit for a party service, partly because he revels in smoldering oratory, Candidate Reed stuck close to his stock speech on G. O. P. "boodlers" and misdeeds, seasoned with a few peppercorns for Tammany Hall. At Dallas, he specially flayed Secretary Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which...
...keeps the hours it pleases), the curb brokers on Throgmorton Street, unshaven and madly perturbed, bid the shares up from a little above ?7 to well above ?9. When the clock in Capel Court, a few blocks away from Throgmorton Street over the low City roofs, struck its nine slow bells, the sun slanted a bright beam into Throgmorton Street and the official Exchange opened. Here, the bidding corrected the excesses that the curb market had already effected; nonetheless, at the close of business, Courtaulds Shares and, by sympathy, the stocks of other artificial silk firms, had soared...
...passed into history. The war is moving farther and farther into the past; it is unfortunate that the death of one of its heroes should bring the revival of the terms "despoilers" and "barbarians" that one finds in the Diaz dispatch. The hatreds of a decade ago are slow enough in dissolving without the resurrection of the epithets of that time...