Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Valdosta is a genial town. Its citizens are trig of garb, slow of speech; they have prosperity; more, they have a hero, Woodrow Wilson, late President of the U.S. They remember him in Valdosta. On a spring day, the triggest, the most prosperous of the citizens of Valdosta, those gentlemen who compose the Chamber of Commerce, met totgether, issued, presently a manifesto. They called upon their fellow citizens for funds to establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said...
Such was the position during the past week. The Monarchists were not slow to take advantage of this situation and they, aided and abetted by their faithful henchmen, the members of the German People's Party, planned an attack...
...ahead of Laughlin, the Yale anchor man. He broke the tape in 8 minutes 5 2-5 seconds, a new Harvard-Yale record. Half an hour earlier the world's champion Georgetown two-mile relay team had been held to 7 min- utes 56 1-5 seconds on the slow B. A. A. track, making Georgetown the better team by the small difference, for the two-mile, of 9 1-5 seconds...
...stickmen will face a difficult task if they are to keep their record unstained. After a slow start, the schoolboy team has developed fast and with a 3 to 1 victory over Stone School to its credit, it should offer stiff opposition to Captain Saltonstall's men who showed a reversal of form on Thursday when Milton Academy held them to a tie score. Owing to the poor condition of ice yesterday, no practice was held...
...swift-mindedness. The departure of Mr. Hughes breaks up the "Big Three" of the Cabinet- Hughes, Mellon, Hoover. If one of the newcomers is to take Hughes' place in the trio, it is likely to be Warren. He is not as Hoover, the man of method, of slow exactness, the efficiency expert of a Nation, nor like Mellon, a solver of the financial intricacies for the biggest business, the largest trust, the only absolute monopoly of the country-the U. S. Government. Rather, Warren is a man of more diversity, all mobile, a capable strategist, hard to trick, always...