Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts which dull Professor M'Lennan's argument, essential as a Canadian Research Institute is, and valuable as it would be, are these: 1) There is a Royal Canadian Institute. It functions as a forum and is rather academic in its attitude. However, it has a pervasive, slow influence on Canadian science and industry. Professor M'Lennan belongs to it. In 1916-17 he was its president. 2) More "practical" is the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Canada. To this he also belongs. 3) Finally, Canada in proportion to population and national wealth...
...frayed rope. When some citizen or sight-see-er enters the elevator with the desire to be hoisted upward, the old blackamoor makes a sad sound and tugs at his rope. Then there is a flash of light, a noise of grinding wheels, a draft of wind; with a slow, drunken irregularity, the rickety cage wobbles toward...
...line, Scott and Fishwick are slow getting down under punts but are sturdy tacklers, and neither knows what dropping a forward pass means. Fishwiek will probably have in mind his last game in the Stadium when he took Tibby Bunnell's place as a greenhorn, and will have to show Harvard that Tad Jones has found the right position for the lanky ex-quarterback. Quarrier and Eddy are two husky tackles who should give Harvard's linemen a ride. In addition Eddy can boot the pigskin over the goal line every time on the kick-off. The writer does...
...named by an English author some time ago the unfulfilled obligations of medical science were two in number: to discover a remedy for cancer and to learn how to grow hair. While progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs...
Playing its last game before the final cash with the Yale booters on Saturday morning, the University soccer team yesterday battled to a 1 to 1 deadlock with M. I. T. on the Technology field in a slow game in which the work of Captain J. F. Carr Jr. '28 and A. M. Stollmeyer '30 proved a redeeming feature...