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Word: sluggish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space sluggish Uranus, wallowing along on the track that takes it 84 years to circumnavigate the sun, rocked in its sidereal course. Uranus was too distant from its sister planet Neptune to have been affected at the time by Neptune's gravitational influence. This circumstance suggested that, unseen by human eye but suspected by a few human brains, some great unknown heavenly body was making its attraction felt. One of the human brains belonged to the late Percival Lowell, another to William Henry Pickering, both Harvard astronomers. In January 1930, true to Lowell calculations, a new planet beyond outermost Neptune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planet P? | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Against a Princeton team which appeared sluggish in the first half and pathetically weak in the second, Cornell's Viviano. Ferraro and Capt. Chris Martinez-Zorrilla pounced on fumbles, blocked kicks, intercepted passes and won, with ludicrous, humiliating ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1931 | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Labor as a hulking, slightly stupid man with great biceps and an ominous sledgehammer in his hand. Viewing the cartoon, one gets the idea that it would be incautious to tread on the man's big toes, extremely imprudent to slap him in the face. He might be sluggish and slow to anger, but if aroused his wrath could be violent. Fortnight ago U. S. Labor, the large part of it that works in steel, copper and textile mills, decidedly had its toes stepped on. After sustaining wage levels through two depressed years while dividends fell and officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: At Vancouver | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...three races the week before the cruise. Riding near was Resolute, which defended the America's Cup in 1920, and Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie, Resolute's rival in the 1920 trials. There were half a dozen Class M sloops-Walter Keith Shaw's Andiamo, sluggish in races the week before the cruise till her captain removed from her keel 100 ft. of lobster line and two lobster pots; Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Avatar, and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club Winthrop Williams Aldrich's Valiant, all with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts & Yachtsmen | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red River War | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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