Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, the University, the seconds, and the Freshman rowed together down to the submarine base, taking it easy all the way, down and back. The stroke was kept low. In the afternoon, the University and Freshman crews took a slow three-and-a-half mile spin downstream. On the way back, both eights were occasionally given hard two-minute stretches by Coach Haines, but nothing in the nature of a time trial occurred. Before the week is out, however, there is apt to be another race against time if Coach Haines original plan for the week is to be carried...
...Times was bought by a company whose central figure and specified publisher was slow spoken, square-jawed Earle E. Martin, editor of the successful Cleveland Press, who straightway resigned that position after seeing a last edition off the presses. He left his sleeves rolled, went to his new office and put in a second consecutive day's work getting out his first Times...
Though badly outhit by the Brown University baseball team, the University nine on Saturday downed the invading Bruins in a ten-inning game, 3 to 2. The game though slow, was interesting throughout, and the Crimson outfit, both in the outfield and in the inner defenses, played the same sterling, wide-awake ball that brought it victory over the Tigers in the first Big Three series. The hitting was weak throughout. Coach Mitchell's charges collected only four hits off the southpaw offerings of Quill. The Brown hurler was the second left-hander to face the Harvard batters this season...
...Guerney, while the other run was also upon his shoulders. Edes scoring from second in the first inning after the Crimson hurler's two base error had allowed him to reach this station. Cutts was in fine shape when he assumed the mound burden in the eighth. His slow ball and his sharply breaking curves were working to perfection, and he had complete control of the situation in the final stages of the game...
Examinations have an awkward tendency to interfere with the steady tenor of college existence. In place of placid efforts to keep up with the slow moving body of courses, there is a feverish spirit of review, rapid reenactment of the term's accumulated knowledge...