Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
...mighty serious trouble. Up for re-election this week is Congressman Joe Bates, Democrat and political boss of Greenup County. Last month, in the Russell Times, Republican Jesse Stuart launched a violent attack on Congressman Bates, comparing him to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin and declaring: "In person, he is slow-going and physically lazy - but Brother, when he cracks the whip . . . he means business...
Kirkland was slow in getting its running attack started, with Winthrop guards Sam Binnian and Dick Eustis blotting out several Deacon line plays. In the last quarter the Deacons made ground when Don McSweeney traveled the ends for good gains...
Three Sophomores complete the team led by Bob Nichols, last year's Freshman captain. Although out of the triangular race, he's been in the scoring in most of the meets, and observers like his nice, easy running. Charlie Oldfather has been coming better after a slow start, while Joseph McLoughlin, who had hardly run at all before he came to Harvard, is much improved over last year. He was 14th in the Yale-Princeton meet last fall, but now he's one of the three members of his class on the team...
...present strength. The fact that the Princeton meet is away will add immeasurably to the team's troubles, for not only will there be the hazard of the Tigers' three national stars, Van de Weghe, Hough, and Parke, but there is always the problem of a strange pool to slow up Crimson swimmers...