Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white folk penetrate 200 miles into French Equatorial Africa to the settlement of Lambarene on the sluggish River Ogowe. Such strangers as do turn up there are mightily surprised to hear, among the night sounds of the jungle, an organ crashing out one of Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccatas and Fugues. Albert Schweitzer is no more famed as a man of God than he is as a man of music. Author of a two-volume biography of Bach, he is the world's No. 1 interpreter of the great German's organ music, which he has edited in five volumes...
Perhaps these exams spur a few lazy scholars out of the pre-vacation slump, but in subjecting everyone to such an ordeal in order to stimulate a sluggish minority is patently unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those...
...Jayvees came out fighting in the second half and drove the ball relentlessly down the field against a sluggish yearling line until Higgins drove off tackle for the first Jayvee score, and Brooking's kick made the count 9-7. Behind the hard-running Pedrick, the upperclassmen passed their way through the dazed Freshmen to tally again on a pass from Pedrick to Fletcher. The attempt at conversion failed and the game ended a few minutes later with Jimmy Knox's boys still clinging to their 13-9 lead...
With its offensive weapons considerably sharpened since last Saturday's sluggish exhibition. Tuss McLaughry's big Brown bear journeys up to Cambridge today anxious to claw the Crimson outfit into submission...
...Explorer, resembling a gigantic exclamation point, took off at 5:45 a. m.. and behaved badly from the start. Sluggish, she took two hours to rise 16,000 ft., then dropped to 14,000 ft. and "stalled" for two hours. After developing what Major Kepner described as "a hell of a list," she began to rise rapidly and by mid-afternoon had reached 60,000 ft. There she balked...