Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardling nine two years ago, someone to share the mound burden with Ed Ingalls. Until Shean was discovered a week ago, Ingalls has won the only games credited to the Crimson victory column. Although Shean has successfully held Brown and Northeastern in check, it is doubtful if his slow ball will baffle the hard hitting batters of the Yale and Dartmouth nines...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
Herr Doktor Frobenius, a lively, goateed little scholar currently lecturing in the U. S., is not surprised when people are slow to grasp the symbolic complexities of his great collection of "dawn art." "We modern Europeans," says he, "concentrating on the newspaper and on that which happens from one day to the next, have lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches...
...race even if Columbia has not developed enough to make it a close one, for the Lion's style of rowing is the antithesis of that taught here by Tom Bolles. Under a system devised by Old dick 'Pop' Glendon, this Light Blue style involves the use of a slow recovery, a long reach, a long layback...