Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently purchased by private capital for Burton Rascoe, editor. The new magazine has a gay cafe au lait cover. Inspection of its con- tents, leads critics to suspect that (like Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, etc.) the Bookman is feeling the sharp spur of the American Mercury in the sluggish sides of thoughtful periodical publishing in the U. S. Among the articles is one by John Farrar, whose editorship (starting in 1921) brought the Bookman from a position of dignified obscurity among publications to a place of literary desirability...
...grouper family. It has little eye set far forward and high up in its head ; a gaping, underslung jaw ; an oblong body. It grows, off tropical America and along the California coast, to a length of six feet, in the Pacific south seas to twelve feet. Although sluggish, it is a favorite of sea fishermen, for its mighty-seeming on the hook...
Ruddigore. With his painstaking productions of lolanthe and The Pirates of Penzance, Winthrop Ames showed Manhattan how Gilbert & Sullivan ought to be staged. Producer Lawrence J. Anhalt, unmindful of the lesson, has made a sluggish, tasteless revival of this operetta. An unfortunate evening is partly redeemed by Craig Campbell as Richard Dauntless, by William Danforth and Herbert Waterous as two of the multitudinous Sir Murgatroyds...
...General Court of Massachusetts, in response to a request from the Corporation of the University, issued a grant of lottery, allowing Harvard to raise a sum of 8,000 pounds. But operations were sluggish, and with the money drifting in slowly, it was not until 1804 that the college had sufficient funds to start work on Stoughton Hall. The total cost was $23,700, $18,400 coming from the proceeds of the lottery and $5,300 from the general funds of the college...
...only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...