Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hubert H. Hauck '38 was victorious in a series of starts with Rheingold beer. Dawson's Pale Ale was easily the fastest in the field, but an inebriate tendency to run into the gutter often prevented it from finishing. Although a slow roller, Pabst invariably took the straightest course and occasionally triumphed when the faster competitors stuck by the wayside. However, interest died out when a strong arm of the law objected to the racket raised by the spectators...
...Decline of Chivalry" by Raymond L. Kilgour '25, instructor in Romance Languages. $4.00. A book showing the slow disintegration of chivalry in the works of the French authors between 1350 and 1500. April...
...Louis Armstrong is your dish, and you can't stand anything slow, sweet, or classical, then the program at the Fine Arts Theatre this week is not for you. But if you prefer your pre-exam cobwebs lulled and soothed away instead of blared and swung away, you'll find a pleasant two hours of relaxation in store for you there...
...CLUE OF THE SILVER CELLAR-Miles Burton-CrimeClub ($2). Ingenious investigation of the disappearance of an unpleasant woman whose body could not be found. Good detective work but rather slow and plodding in parts...
Half a mile to go . . . the stroke went up a little and as it did the Harvard boat, inch by inch, pulled into the lead. It was slow business, but it was sure. Down the last quarter it was all Tom Bolles's boys. Up and up went the stroke as the crew shot away from Princeton's tiring crew, past blaring automobile horns and wildly yelling Harvardians watching their rowing Renaissance. The Varsity didn't look quite as smooth as the Jayvees had, but in true Washington style they were winning that race in its closing stages...