Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the starting team will be the same as that which lined up against Penn last Saturday, with the very major exception of Captain Torbie Macdonald. Because of Torbie's slow-healing ankle, Fran Lee with support from Ed Buckley will assume the crucial tail-back assignments. Joe Koufman and Rurgy Ayres have recovered from injuries sustained in the Quaker encounter and are expected to continue the improvement shown last week...
...miss hearing Crosby play some slow blues. They are really something. Irving, Fazola, the clarinet player, has a blues tone which is so full and clear that Mr. Goodman just shuts up when anybody mentions his name. Jesse Stacy, Goodman's old piano man, is with the band, and he alone is worth the trip down there. The rest of the band--the trick stuff of drummer Ray Baudue and bassist Bobby Haggert, you probably know about already, so there isn't any need to review it. Incidentally, the latter is the author of the very popular "What...
Another difficulty the British have had to overcome-they have done so with amazing rapidity-is their slow rate of plane production. It was in 1936 that Britain finally woke up to the appalling state of her Air Force. At the end of last year Britain was producing only about 200 planes a month, but by last week they had almost achieved a rate of 1,000 per month, bade fair to overtake the German rate soon...
...several industries customers who had put in big rush orders began sending instructions to slow down deliveries. Perversely, some frightened sellers tried to speed deliveries lest the orders be canceled...
...Press conference following the game, Coach Dick Harlow effectively summed up the situation by saying, "It was a question of a good, experienced team playing one with possibilities." Perhaps remembering the Cornell game a year ago and the subsequent success of a slow starting eleven, Dick and his staff refused to adopt a defeatist attitude...