Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers for his scrapbooks, tries to be in bed by 9 o'clock. He limits his drinking to one whiskey & soda before dinner, smokes only denicotinized cigars. In 1932, he was bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives...
When it appeared, the Argentine tango scandalized all respectable people, and they were not slow in saying so. In those early years of the 20th Century, the German Kaiser, the King of Italy, the Queen of England and the Pope were all in agreement: they detested the tango...
...Ankles. Lou Boudreau (rhymes with mud row) himself was the red-hottest Indian of them all. Despite a slight banquet-season paunch, Lou was batting a phenomenal .519 from his unorthodox crouch and was leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished...
...crew time to develop, and so far the Varsity is still below maximum efficiency, so defeats now don't necessarily spell the end of Olympic chances in June. The sub-arctic condition of the Charles in the early part of the season has much to do with this slow development, giving the crews of more tropical climes an advantage in April...
...second. From then on the game was never in doubt as Langdon Clay held the home team to live earned runs. Harvard capitalized on ten hits and numerous Jumbo errors. Bucky Harrison, with a homer and a triple, and Web Durant, who also homered, found Tufts' slow pitching to their liking and led the team at the plate...