Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...using sixteen Yardlings with the same college board record as that of the "guinea pigs" as controls, the clinic established beyond a doubt that the special training caused a rise in the grades of the slow readers from the November Hours to Mid-Years...
...smartly dressed, wearing his hat rakishly on the back of his head, solemn and almost macabre in appearance, Colonel Beck is probably the most unpopular of big Polish politicians. But political unpopularity matters little in Poland. One Pole out of five is illiterate. Communications are comparatively undeveloped, public opinion slow to form. The peasantry in many parts of the country spend most of their time and interest on trying to get enough to eat to keep alive...
Columbia's pool is notoriously slow, Brown's is so small that only two men can swim at the same time, Penn's leaves much to be desired, swimmers have to paddle across the odd-sized Navy bath, and Yale offers a round-cornered affair with a high-diving board that frightens many a visiting leaper into a poor performance, while a high-diver at Princeton would leave his scalp on a rafter without much effort...
Competing in the slow Columbia pool, a cold-ridden Crimson squad defeated the New Yorkers Saturday in a meet that was not s close as the 41-34 score might indicate. The 1942 swimmers were given a severe drubbing by a crack Exeter team, 49 to 17, as the schoolboys took every first, four seconds, and both relays...
Curwen managed to win the century in the surprisingly slow time of 56 flat, while Vergeichik and Harvard' Powers almost swam a dead heat for second, the Lion natator getting the decision. The explanation of Curwen's slow time is that his arm was caught around a lane-marker. Bosworth's 1:43.3 in the 150-yard dorsal event was fast in view of his dubious health, Tom Finnerty barely came in ahead of Craig Moore for second...