Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...worked diligently with the candidates. He has a very good knowledge of the Henley course and of English strokes, and it is his purpose not to change the principle of the Yale stroke at all, but to make an improvement in the methods of tank work. The slow work in the tank has always made it difficult for the men to acquire proper action in the boat, so it will be the purpose of this season's coaching to accustom the crew to the same line of action in tank work as in open water. Mr. Cook's plans...
...Going Slow" in Social Reform. Francis G. Peabody...
...some sixteen months ago that the first stories were heard of Turkish atrocities committed in Armenia. Christendom was startled; but it was slow to awake to the terrible reality of the situation, to realize that Armenia is now and has long been the scene of horrible cruelty, savage ferocity, and brutal lust, such as is unsurpassed in the history of the relations of man to man. It is no exaggeration to say that in about a year and a half sixty thousand martyrs have suffered at the hands of the fierce Turks. No longer ago than Saturday there came news...
...saying that England's presence on this continent is a menace and an offence. Congress and a large part of our newspapers and people thereupon go fighting-drunk; and Mr. Roosevelt writes you a letter to call any of us who may have presumed to beg our congressmen to slow-up if they can, "betrayers" of our native land. We are evidently guilty of lese-majeste in Mr. Roosevelt's eyes; and though a mad president may any day commit the country without warning to an utterly new career and history, no citizen, no matter how he feels, must then...
...most fairly judged. "The Stickit Minister," Mr. Crocket's best achievement in this kind, has a good deal of humor, pathos, and homespun truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums" is a focussing element which adds immensely to the effect of Mr. Barrie's best book. "Ian Maclaren" does...