Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first team was outfit 16 to 10 and was slow to get a start in the game. In the second inning B.U., after two outs massed four runs, and followed up with three more two innings later. Hovenanian starred for Harvard at the plate by getting three hits out of five times at bat. Woods played a stellar game in the field. Three Crimson pitchers failed to fame the B.U., bats, Croke making a home run for the opponents...
...steam from the cylinders to the boiler with only 1% loss. Constant pressure in the boilers is maintained by electric gauges which automatically ignite the burners when pressure begins to fall. Take-off pressure can be generated in one minute. The engine is reversible in flight, effecting a short, slow landing...
...slow dripping of animadversions against Shepherd Hall has at last penetrated the granite reserve of the administration: it announced today that the Hall would be closed, beginning next year. While the gloomy interior of the place has made it an excellent site for the decay to which students are given, and while some of the more decadent may mourn its passing for that reason, none in his right mind will weep at the bier of the lecherous old incubus. A malignant growth, it has been dislodged only by repeated complaints of various natures, and by the manifesto of the Commissioner...
Professor Blake Expressed the Opinion that the plan has done no injustice to the students, but in those cases where there has been great inconvenience special arrangements have been made. There has been a slow but steady increase each year in the number of books taken for outside use but this year the increase has been more rapid. The desk use in the reading room has decreased but the overnight privilege has correspondingly increased. The figures for the reading room are as follows: Desk Overnight Oct.1931 3620 2492 " 1932 6859 4243 Nov.1931 7670 2249 " 1932 5902 4555 Dec.1931...
...sheriff's office, everybody was mighty pleased. Just the same, the Sheriff had to do his duty. He figured out that six different people might have done it, with good reason and full opportunity. Detective-story addicts may hold their breath as the Sheriff does his slow and conscientious bloodhounding, but the cynical reader's faith is justified when everything comes out all right...