Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ticker chattered and clucked like a thing gone daft-it tripped itself up and jumpled its furious jargon as if it had an impedient of speech-yet all day long it was slow. When the ticker is even a minute slow it means that an unusually heavy lot of trading is being done. On Friday of last week it was from eight to twenty minutes slow all the time. When the bell rang 2,684,907 shares had been bought and sold-the second largest day's trading in the history of the Stock Exchange, and the highest total...
...doubles competition L. O. Pratt '26 and J. F. W. Whitbeck '27 disposed of Nathaniel Hamlen '27 and A. R. Allen Jr. '26 without much difficulty, after a slow start. L. H. Gordon '27 and P. M. Lenhart '27 rushed through their match with the loss of only one game. Gordon and Lenhart will meet T. E. Jansen Jr. '26 and W. T. Smith '26 for a semi-final place...
...management of the Union has announced that tonight at 7.30 o'clock the performance will again be given. Coach Cowles of the University tennis team will be present to explain the line points of the slow-motion pictures of Tilden, Johnston, Richard, and Williams...
...second of the Union's series of sport motion-pictures will be shown on the screen in the Living Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Besides the tennis reel which will be of the slow-motion type, a Mack Sennett comedy, entitled "The Wild Goose Chase", featuring Ben Turpin, will be shown...
Tilden, Johnston, Richards, and Williams, who last year represented the United States in the Davis Cup matches, will all be flashed on the screen tonight. Each of the stars will be shown making all the ground, service, and volley strokes, and the motion is so slow that it is possible to see clearly how the different parts of each stroke are executed...