Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with the slow poison of required reading lists and hour exams...
...Venetian blind flap, built like a wooden window shade, which gives more lift for slow take-offs and landings than any flap now flying, means that speeds can be made higher without worrying about how fast a high-speed ship will land, how much run it will need to take...
Lupien and Gene Lovett, Sophomore left fielder, were the big guns in the home team's offense. Lupien opened the last half of the second with a smash to deep left, which snappy relaying held to two bases. Lovett then drove a slow ball over second into centerfield, scoring Lupien; Tully singled...
...this is not a blanket condemnation of tutoring in toto; there are, according to the majority opinion, a variety of cases where tutoring is a fair and ethical expedient. For the lame, the halt, and the blind, it is quite proper. The man who has been sick and the "slow but honest" student have a clear right to extra guidance. So also the extra-curricular man who values his activities more than his academics. Nor should a student be denied tutoring as a supplement to the work he has done for himself. All but the most exceptional scholars need...
...Union Pacific off to a rolling start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday...