Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Justices to the Administration's onslaughts during the Great Court Battle was a dignified letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, signed by Chief Justice Hughes and approved by Liberal Brandeis and Conservative Van Devanter. pointing out that while Justices may be old they are not necessarily slow, always leave their docket in apple-pie order. This year the Justices went off to pack for their vacations, having disposed of 1.012 cases, leaving 78 on the docket (compared to 65 last year) to be heard when they reconvene next October...
...life of planetary nebulae has been found by Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, to be, on the average, about 30,000 years. These bright bodies with their large and rapidly expanding gaseous envelopes, develop in the manner of exceptionally slow novae...
These batting spurts formed one of the two Harvard bright spots. The other was provided by the relief hurling of John Mahoney who followed Ingalls to the mound and allowed but three hits in four and a third innings. His slow curves had the Purple popping or grounding out weakly...
...lost upon crew experts who hall the Harvard sweepers as sprint champions of the East is the significance of their consistently slow stroke over the short distances. Although the Elis flashed by Cornell to cast grave doubts on the Bollesmen's mythical title, sportsmen are picking the Chace-paced eight to come into its element in the long distance stretch at New London...
...handed pitcher for the Phillies. I guess you'd call me the Hubbell of my time. We were playing the Giants in the old Philadelphia ball park on August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with a lucky homer and folks thought I could repeat...