Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...France have established their coalition cabinets and have made merit the determining factor in all appointments to office. Since a year ago last April, the question of politics in our national Government has been foremost in the public mind. Leaders of Congress and the press have not been slow to lay charges of partisanship at the administration's door. It is under such conditions that the events of the last weeks have a special significance. The appointment of Schwab, Ryan, and finally Hughes to positions of importance opens a new chapter in executive policy...
...exercise today," said Lieutenant Morize after the maneuvers yesterday afternoon, when the corps was reviewed at Fresh Pond by the Board of Overseers. "Every movement was on time, and it was most satisfying to see the results of your year's work. It shows that while things seemed slow and uninteresting during the winter you all were learning wonderfully well the idea of the battle formations, and you are now doing excellently as a result. It is a good omen of what fine work we may do in the future, and I am very glad indeed...
...this a total of 600,000 at the maximum. The problem before the Allies is one of inflicting casualties at a rate higher than this national increase. During the last month and a half no less than 300,000 Germans have fallen. The possibility of defeating Germany by a slow weakening of her manpower is therefore one of very practical importance...
...time since 1916, the University crew and baseball team will engage in intercollegiate contests today. The race at Princeton and the game here mark the resumption of formal athletics after the lapse of over a year in which we have seen the abolition of all sports followed by their slow and uncertain revival under the guise of informalism to their present basis. This revised formal basis eliminates all the objectionable qualities of unnecessary, expense and excessive advertising which formerly brought college athletics into disrepute. Its success or failure rests with the student body...
...that is changed today. The growing convictions of the early years of the war have burst forth into actual participation. Where once the germs of indifference flourished, the seeds of sincerity and solidarity of purpose have now been planted. In the first days of the year they have been slow to blossom. As time passes, however, they have grown into the flowers of achievement, so that on this April sixth America is prepared for the decisive stages...