Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lynn J. Frazier, 52, Senator from North Dakota, slow-moving, slow-speaking, is a real dirt farmer. He owns 480 acres of wheat in the Red River Valley and has never had a crop failure. In 1916 the embattled farmers and the Non-Partisan League elected him Governor of North Dakota. His round face beamed like a child with a new puzzle, but the farmers were pleased, so they sent him to the Senate in 1923. A radical at Washington, he is just a good, big farmer* out in the Red River Valley. Republicans who ousted him from the regular...
Huddle Does Not Slow Up Game...
...huddle the quarterback is the only one to speak, and he merely gives the signal. Records show that the average number of plays in a game is as great with the huddle system as it was with the old system of calling signals, so the huddle does not slow up the game. As for stalling, the referee is near enough to know what goes on in the huddle, and if he lets a team hold a town meeting in their huddle, it is his responsibility and no fault of the huddle system...
...romantic mutual infatuation. Before they could be married he was stricken with paralysis. Brave, devoted, he called his fiancee and his brother Alexander to his deathbed and swore them to wed each other. The gigantic Grand Duke Alexander (later Tsar Alexander III) was as strong as a bear, as slow as an ox and one of the most obstinately loyal of men. He married his brother's fiancee (1866); and one day he crowned himself Tsar* and her Tsarina...
...Professor Fisher believes that "Prohibition is here to stay." Significance. This is the ablest summary of the Dry side of the argument that has yet been published. Professor Fisher is adamant in his convictions, painstaking in his researches. He thoroughly believes that alcohol in his system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor of the "dismal...