Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the first few minutes of the second period, the game, which began as a slow, close-checking affair, began to open up, and from then on it was fast, exciting hockey all the way through. Brilliant saves by Freedley, who replaced Mittell as netminder early in the game, were the only thing that prevented the Olympics from scoring at least twice in the last period. Most spectacular of these came when he dropped his stick to catch a well-placed penalty shot from the stick of Cliff Thompson, Olympic forward and former Stoneham star...
...Groves was not slow in making his presence felt. He acquired a handful of broken-down investment trusts, put them together as Equity Corp. and sold them to Rockefeller Son-in-Law David M. Milton at a profit of $750,000, according...
...House and are forced to spend their days regretting that fact. The latter are clearly the more deserving, and a great deal of printer's ink, ranging from suggestions in these columns to a more recent plagiarism of Jonathan Swift, has been expended in their behalf. The University was slow in taking steps, very possibly because the condition was considered temporary Justice and a certain mild realism now demand that Harvard find a permanent solution for a problem which ha itself become permanent, and that it find some stop-gap until this remedy is put into effect. Centuries mean little...
...told him his face was familiar, out "now don't tell me, let me guess." Cantor got a little weary of this and remarked that he was the man with five daughters. "Oh, I know, Mr. Dionne," the stranger said quickly. "No," said Cantor, "Eddie Cantor--Dionne in slow motion...
Last week as the No. 1 opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...