Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final match of the State tournament, with the two hardest hitting players in the tournament opposing each other, brought out the best squash of the competition. The champion, who reached the top of his game last week after a slow start, matched power and speed with his younger opponent. In the last game with the veteran leading by a 10-2 margin, Wright made a desperate attempt to pull the match out of the fire by discarding his hard driving game and attacking Baker's weakness on high, slow lobs to the back hand. The Crimson number one man pulled...
Moving pictures, showing famous crews from the University and other colleges, were thrown on the screen and with the help of slow motion, Coach Stevens pointed out the strokes he had been discussing. Great rowing classics at New London and elsewhere were thrown on the screen together with pictures recently taken in the tank at Newell Boat house...
With the elephant's deliberateness and the donkey's constitutional indisposition to act, the tax bill found steady but exceedingly slow going in the Senate last week. The chief clauses of the bill determined on were...
...internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong that the desire to vomit is overwhelming, and after that act is consummated great relief is experienced. The vomiting is very often projectile in character, and there may be little or no nausea preceding. Objectively, one usually finds a strong, slow pulse with increased blood pressure in the early stages, and later a lowered blood pressure with rapid pulse...
...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...