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...powerful Adams House football team ran up a 120 victory over a sluggish Eliot House team yesterday. Leverett also moved into the win column with a 20-6 victory over Dudley...
...both federal and local (see chart), the private-utility industry has been growing faster than any other in the U.S. More than doubling every ten years, power output has soared from 82 billion kw.-h. in 1933 to an estimated 440 billion this year; last week, in the once sluggish summer season, output hit an alltime record of 8.5 billion...
...buckets"). But it was as a salesman that Billy first made his automotive mark. Convinced that British makers were neglecting overseas markets, Rootes landed world sales rights for Rolls-Royce, Hillman and others. Then, selling cars faster than he could deliver them, Rootes concluded the makers were "too sluggish," decided to take on manufacturing himself...
...jungle heat of Washington last week President Eisenhower devoted most of his time to a torpid and sluggish Congress...
...Arizona-Sonora Desert Trailside Museum. His purpose: to explore the intimate lives of all Southwestern reptiles, a subject not well known. Since reptiles are "coldblooded" (i.e., have no built-in thermostats as mammals do), they must adjust their activities to the temperature around them. In cold weather they are sluggish, and if they stay out too long in Arizona's searing sun, they die of heat prostration. So Woodin believes that an important step toward understanding the life routines of desert reptiles is to observe their behavior and take their internal temperature under all weather conditions...