Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken as more than just stirring embers in a fire that lies on the ashes of its deathbed and presages a genuine revival of interest, the cause of debating at Harvard can take heart. For the Debating Council has come perilously near to allowing the sport to die a slow and lingering death, and any measures that can be adopted to stimulate more general interest come as welcome news to all who care for the argumentative...
...least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia's able slow bowler, L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, took them both before England could add to its overnight score of 165. Australia had then won the match, by an innings and a tidy 200 runs, retained The Ashes by a great recovery, three matches...
...side, was a runt. But he was a champion's son and when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon, he was standing on point when a blinding blizzard struck suddenly...
Father Trane is dead and it was Son Reuben who put the company into air conditioning. Progress was slow. As late as 1920 there were only 40 on Trane's payroll, only 159 by 1927. Today the total is nearly 1,000. On the day the new plant was opened last month with speeches, dancing and free beer, all the La Crosse employes chipped in to buy a half-page newspaper advertisement, surprising their boss with a THANK YOU, MR. TRANE...
...President lamented that an amendment, besides being too slow, could be blocked by thirteen states with only five percent of the population. But he failed to remark that the representatives in the Senate of those same states could, by filibustering, block any judicial appointment he might make, or, for that matter, any law. In other words, he is not so worried about democratic majority rule as he is about his own immediate control. His real complaint is that he can't whip states into lines as easily as the might the gentlemen of the Senate...