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Both Harvard teams played sluggish first-half ball due in part to a long bus trip and lack of any pre-game rest. The varsity and Yardling tens outplayed the Ephmen in the second halves, but were unable to pare first half defiles of 9 to 0 and 7 to 4, respectively...

Author: By Dayley F. Mason, | Title: Varsity, Freshman Lacrosse Teams Bow to Williams Squads, 12-4, 13-9 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Fortnight ago Mikoyan made a fresh start on his life's hope: to give the sluggish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Kremlin's Huckster | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left wing dipped and she swirled drunkenly into the corrugated metal corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: The Price You Pay | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Pomerantz figured that near the north magnetic pole in northeastern Canada the earth's magnetic field is so feeble that even the most sluggish rays should make the grade. He also reasoned that if he could find rays so feeble that they could not theoretically get through the supposed magnetic field of the sun, he would have proved that such a field does not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Magnetic Field? | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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