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...along an endlessly level horizon. Ornate old cities, which have known and outgrown greatness, nurse their memories amid a neat patchwork of fields where golden wheat and rye shimmer at each passing breeze. Turning idly in the same soft breeze, the sails of windmills urge the sluggish water along a network of canals which are the province's vital arteries, moving its traffic, draining and feeding its rich black soil...
Miss Jones sighs and pants in her usual professional manner, and the sluggish script calls for nothing more. Clift's lot is no better; his expressive face is overtaxed in ninety minutes of repetitious closeups...
Tech and Yale broke out in front at the start of the varsity race, but Princeton soon moved up to challenge the Engineers as the Elis fell back at the half-mile mark. The Crimson got off to another sluggish start and by the three-quarter mile marker there was open water between the Tech and varsity shells...
Valid as the "trickle down" theory may be, it cannot work in a sacred or sluggish economy. Direct aid to consumers, through an increased exemption plan like the one the House rejected, is far more effective medicine for this kind of ailment. Raising exemptions above the present $600 would increase general buying power. And as consumption grows, business can be expected to extend its capacity to meet increased demand. Benefits to the great mass of the public, in the ability to buy more and better things, are direct and immediate...
Less than ten years ago, the district, near the sluggish Harlem River, was a dreary wasteland of filthy, overcrowded brick-and-stone tenements. Today dozens of blocks of them have been torn out and in their places stand two big, modern apartment projects whose high sunbathed and lawn-bordered buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between...