Word: slow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Americans. Slow and sad, looking for new forwards, more spares...
...came close to preventing a whitewash in the second period, actually checking up a point but the score was disallowed. The referee's whistle had blown before Whitmore dubbed one in because of a penalty on Stubbs. The remainder of the game was slow, except for an occasional rally, both teams tiring rapidly...
Except for the first period in which the Crimson capitalized on the errors of the Terrier goalie to poke its four goals in the net the game was slow and uninteresting. Both teams played ragged on the offense during the last two periods and only an occasional milling about the net made the last 40 minutes exciting...
...life of earlier days, it is a little remarkable that no direct handling of the problem of what traditions might be dispensed with and what are strong enough to warrant their continuance has been tried. The custom which is losing undergraduate support has been left to a process of slow dying which is painful to many observers who cherished...
Lack of official relations forced Comrade Litvinov to send his reply through the same slow grapevine via which he received the U. S. note, namely the French Embassy at Moscow. Correspondents cabled it direct, caused Statesman Stimson's acute embarrassment, placed him in a position where he found it necessary to break a state department rule and comment on a communication from a foreign power before he actually received...