Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's Second Freshman football team yesterday went down before the Andover Seconds 6.0 at the Andover field, after a slow start by the Crimson enabled the defenders to rush over the lone score in the first quarter, while the rest of the game was closely contested...
...first heat was won by Marks in a slow race with William P. Hazard '38, the time being 4 min., 52 sec. The second heat, between Meigs and R. B. Cutler '35, offered the spectators more thrills, with Cutler holding the lead up to the final hundred yards. The sculls was refereed by Paul Reardon...
...months or years before Moscovites can actually ride on a subway complete with stations, tickets and all such necessaries. But last week the 70,000 Moscow subway builders, fired with frantic zeal, pledged themselves not to slow down, vowed that next January a train shall run over the entire seven-mile underground line as demanded by the original plan...
...popularity of the new deal was slow in striking Cambridge. The conservatism which has always marked student opinion here provided a Hoover landslide in 1932 when the country was ridding itself of the laissez-faire complex. Last winter, however, reactionaries dashed for cover as the high purposes of Mr. Roosevelt' and his program struck home. The CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll is testimony to the change...
...definite end to the decline in production and the slow, steady expansion of credit were heartening, but the most impressive business news continued to dwell on the way John Citizen was crowding the counters of the nation's stores. Chain-store sales were running 13% above last year, department store sales in some cities were up as much as 35%. September mail order sales were up 42%. It took no statistical microscope to perceive that the long downward sweep of the business curve had, at last, a little upward hook...