Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fencers can come any size, any strength. But big, strong men with cauliflower ears and battered noses don't fence. If you are quick, you can fence. If you have the intelligence, you can become what you will. The slow man not too slow, who uses his intelligence, he is a very dangerous man. He will parry, he niposte until he tires...
...SLAVE SHIP- Mary Johnston- Little, Brown ($2.00). One of those slow-moving but inevitable groundswells of approval- the usual reward of sound, unspectacular workmanship- has gathered behind Mary Johnston's sombre study of the 18th Century slave trade. The tale is David Scott's, told in his own burred words. A young Scotch Jacobite, he fell in with the dark traffic upon escaping from penal indenture in Virginia. The evils of that traffic, the crime of the hideous Middle Passage, bore heavy on his Scotch conscience...
...last 25 years, improved methods of teaching, medical education of the public, etc. At last someone asked the question : "Why are the doctors leaving the country? Where is the rural practitioner?" The discussion ambled along; listeners caught, in its labored periods, the clip-clop of slow hoofs, the rattle of a dry axle, saw, in the rutted lane of the imagination, a buggy swaying along with reins pulling slack from the hands of a threadbare, weary man who followed where his nag took him- down the lane, away from the sombre fields, the farmhouses smelling of disinfectant, toward the city...
...into Egyptian archaeology unless he has first, a university education behind him with a good scholarship record, and second, a private income sufficient for a modest living. In the Egyptian field the training requires a great deal of time and a man's material progress is slow. A man has to make his own place by developing some special branch of research in which he excels every one else. The number of expeditions is small and the places...
Coach Spuhn insisted on the strokes maintaining a low beat throughout the long spin. At this slow pace, the eight stroked by Captain Dudley Merrill '26 showed itself decidedly superior to the other crews, and forged steadily ahead. Coming in to the boathouse, Merrill raised the stroke to a 36 without much strain, and without destroying the evenness which had characterized the low beat...