Word: sluggish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mercurochrome on Gaylyn's cut finger, Miss Campbell found the going harder than in the morning. When Johnny, during a history lesson, remarked: "It sounds kind of goofy," Miss Campbell was shocked, said severely: "I don't think that's very good English." During a sluggish geography lesson that followed, Miss Campbell lost her temper, pointed her pencil, said grimly: "Listen, Doris, you go back and read slower and don't make any mistakes. You're getting to be a terrible thinker...
...Elis Sluggish...
From New Haven comes the report that the Elis 10-7 victory over Columbia was a combination of breaks and the tamest Lion eleven in years. The Yale attack was sluggish, and the traditional passing strength never approached that of the Roscoe, Kelley, and Frank eras. A dogged Blue line and an unspectacular backfield won the game from a fumbling, mediocre Columbia squad...
...Survey Graphic, "magazine of social interpretation," thus keynoted "the challenge of democracy to education" in its October issue last week. Survey Graphic last February began an attempt to arouse sluggish U. S. democrats with a trumpeting series entitled "Calling America." Because it believes that "democracy begins in the cradle," the magazine devoted its entire October issue to an appraisal of the U. S. educational system, by 31 famed educators and journalists...
...types of animal life on Earth there are enormous differences in the rate of oxygen intake, and it may be that animals on Mars have adapted themselves to the rare atmosphere by an ultra-slow rate of oxygen consumption. Such animals might be intelligent but they would also be sluggish-probably too sluggish to make plans for invading the Earth...