Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Class Luncheon Association will serve a buffet supper at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday, November 19, at 7.30 o'clock. Slow motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale Football Game of 1922 will be shown. Kindly notify Carl V. Chandler at National City Co. of Boston (Maine 8100) before 5.00 o'clock tonight if you can attend...
Pratt at the other tackle has come along slowly. The rangy Sophomore has been slow across the line of scrimmage, but he is gaining experience and has learned much this season...
...many years ago, thinks Lampy, there would have been a small committee to insert the too-terpsichorean freshman gently in his hansom cab, and start him firmly on the long, slow drive to Cambridge. The old order changeth, but Lampy wishes merely to caution, and advise moderation to the many popular stalwarts by the Charles...
...hand, quick of eye and springy of step, hearty and good natured in spite of being a grizzled veteran past 60. He was personally attractive, impulsive, brave and sure of himself. The Court found him guilty of "vacillation, dilatoriness and lack of enterprise," and declared that he had been slow in obeying orders, remiss in securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action be taken, and indeed the time had expired in which a court martial could be held. Shortly after the trial he was retired...
...story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...