Word: slow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the Sox's starters have been erratic. Jose Santiago and Gary Waslewski have been slow to develop, and Ray Culp and Dick Ellsworth, acquired in trades over the winter, have ranged from great to terrible...
Ramsey and his colleagues began by putting very slow neutrons in a weak magnetic field, causing them to precess like tops. These spinning neutrons were directed through a strong electric field which would cause a dipole to change its precession frequency. However, the physicists recorded no change in the spinning of the neutron...
...marshals grim details to demonstrate that no man would take to the road for any reason but dire necessity. In the heyday of rail travel, there were homicidal "cinder dicks" like trigger-twitchy Jeff Carr, who operated out of Cheyenne, Wyo., and got his kicks by galloping along a slow-moving freight taking pot shots at hoboes with his six-gun. Those who survived ran into a different danger in trackside camps. Homosexuality was rampant, and Allsop insists that The Big Rock Candy Mountain, the hobo's anthem, is really "a homosexual tramp serenade," one of "the 'ghost...
This battle of speeches and styles provides a basic speed and excitement in the Agassiz production that can overcome any amount of slow cues and nervously mis-timed punchlines--both of which abounded last night. But the control was tight enough so that the sloppiness for the most part just ruined jokes instead of scenes...
...only over the dinner table--in the Houses. At present, only Winthrop and Lowell Houses offer House General Education courses. Dunster House has a Composer-in-Residence; no other House has a similar post. The Houses are beginning to expand their educational role, but this expansion has been too slow and is far from universal...