Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although trailing 15 to 6 at the end of the half, a fighting Freshman basketball team came back with a rush in the third and fourth periods, making 22 points to beat the Jayvees 28-23 in their annual game. The game was slow and ragged in the first half, with the Junior Varsity obviously playing the better game...
...getting him to grant a receivership to Insull's great Middle West Utilities Co. Bankers described the uneasy last days of secret meetings and suspicions before the April 1932 crash of Insull's jerry-built Jericho. Said the First National Bank's executive vice president, slow-spoken, huge-shouldered Edward Eagle Brown: "We didn't discuss all this in Mr. Insull's presence. He was the most dominating man I ever knew. You wouldn't discuss such things in his presence-not if you knew Mr. Insull you wouldn...
...College since 1912, left to become secretary of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. Esteemed as an able teacher and wit, he was always ready to stop for a friendly chat on his cane-clumping jaunts about the campus. But he had another, official manner-head back, eyelids drooping, speech slow and precise - which made many an under graduate quake...
...yard House Relay Championship Saturday evening during the intermission of the Browon meet. Pushed to the limit by the Brooks men, the winning four, Walter W. Jeffers '36, William H. Ledgard '36, James F. Donnally '35, and George W. Shepherd '36 won the race in the rather slow time of 1 min., 49.2 sec. Scarcely four inches behind, the Brooks men finished second with the two favored teams of Adams and Lowell Houses in third and fourth positions...
...pushed for four laps by Stanton, set a new Harvard record in the backstroke. Harry Fitts, apparently in the best form he has shown all season, scored the biggest surprise by defeating Lyman, the Brown veteran diver, for the first time in the Harvard pool. George Scott, despite a slow start in the fifty, managed to close up a narrow lead, and finally edge ahead of Lewis, with Roy Wallace a close third...