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Word: sluggish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gorilla is a sluggish thinker," Nutmegaphoned Editor Tunney. "He only knows one attack. He goes after something and grabs it with his hands and then hugs it to his breast, crushing the life out of it when possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gorilla v. Man | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...that honor promptly came last week from Westport, Conn., an arty village lying on the sluggish River Saugatuck where it empties into Long Island sound. There Author Hendrik van Loon's Connecticut Society of Friends of Music announced plans for an initial summer season of six concerts scheduled for this summer. While this six-performance schedule would still leave Westport trailing in competition with such established U. S. summer festivals as the Berkshire, Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Municipal Opera, and Manhattan Lewisohn Stadium, such Westporters as van Loon, Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett hope for glamorous future expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salzburg on the Saugatuck | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...meat, the 52-year-old singer felt somewhat queasy, but did not allow his feelings to interfere with his duty: a matinee of Aida at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But in the famed aria "Celeste Aida," Martinelli began edging toward the wings, speeding up the aria's sluggish phrases. In the shadow of the wings he collapsed of indigestion. Next morning the New York Herald Tribune printed a column of Martinelli's hints on Italian food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...reproof to TIME'S Press Editor for a sluggish description of the muddy Thames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...sluggish Thames" in your article, Dec. 13, on the London Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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