Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...division took their starting positions as follows: 1, Randolph; 2, Russell; 3, Claverly. Ridgely did not appear on the river at all, and Mt. Auburn street appeared late with only seven men. At the start Russell and Claverly immediately began to pick up on Randolph, which was rowing a slow stroke, and, keeping the same positions relative to each other, they continued to gain until the Stillman Infirmary was reached. Rounding the bend at that point poor steering caused Russell to drop back, and it looked for a time as if Claverly would score a bump, but half way down...
...useful levers in starting melodramas--climbed in through a window and stole the child away. He had begged and borrowed until Henry had at last turned him off, and this was to be his revenge for the "desertion." Nine years later, again on Christmas eve, that other useful dramatic slow-match, the new trained nurse, tells Martha of a man she tended at a hospital in Georgia who confessed a similar abduction, and identifies Lirty by a photograph. The man had died and the nurse had never found the child. The prospect seems as hopeless as any that had baffled...
This year, however, the coaches have not had as much opportunity to drill the players and it is probable that the teamwork will be comparatively crude. The slow field, heavy with yesterday's rain, will also do much to handicap the speed of the backfield...
...point was driven home a little later, when, President Maclaurin having publicly announced that Technology was looking for a new residence, offers came immediately from many places. Springfield, for instance, offered to give all the land required, besides pledging perpetual exemption from taxation. The citizens of Cambridge were not slow to conclude that what Springfield regarded as a most profitable investment-to wit, a three-million dollar institution free from taxation-could not be a bad thing for Cambridge; and accordingly they asked Technology to remove to this city, without fear, now or hereafter, of being assailed by the taxassessors...
...that it can give good support to a twirler pitching a steady game, and Sexton was at all times master of the situation. With runners on second and third in the eighth and only one down, the best the Red and Blue batsmen could get was a couple of slow rollers into the hands of the infielders. Besides Sexton fanned six and passed but three...