Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Easily whipping a sluggish Junior Varsity five, the strong third year law School quintet chalked up a 43 to 26 win in the New Indoor Athletic Building yesterday afternoon. Julian A. Altman, Luther H. Gulick, and Tomas I. Nido were high scorers for the visitors with eighteen points apiece. The game was fast and at times rough, with the Jayvees seeming disorganized and slow in comparison with the Law School team...
...Varsity boxing team fought Springfield, winning 6-2. This meet was sluggish with three decisions, two draws, and two technical knock-outs. Marshall A. Lamb '34, captain, fought a draw in the 125-pound class. The most exciting battles fought were by Thomas J. G. Tighe '36 and Philip W. A. Hines '34, both of which ended it technical knockouts...
Died. León Charles Albert Calmette, 70, sub-director of Paris' Pasteur Institute, developer of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine for tuberculosis immunity; of peritonitis; in Paris. Helped by Veterinary Surgeon Charles Guérin, he produced a sluggish strain of tuberculosis bacilli from cattle, made a vaccine which was given to hundreds of thousands of French babes with apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations...
...proved that it had an offense riddled with holes but capable at times of clicking beautifully. Yesterday neither offense nor defense showed any promise. Realizing that for the first time since the Holy Cross game they were up against inferior opposition, the first-string men settled down to a sluggish, unexciting contest. The reaction from the two previous closely-fought games was perfectly natural, but some terrible weaknesses were revealed...
Philosophy A could be a course to challenge the intellectual curiosity of all but the most sluggish student, but succeeds only in bewildering the few who can manage to maintain interest in a large and poorly managed course...