Word: sluggish
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...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...
...wife, was a woman of decided and dangerous character and her schemes for ruling the Empire made frequent use of murder. Claudius was not even allowed to marry whom he liked. The pretty girl he wanted was murdered on their betrothal day; thereafter he was given in succession a sluggish giantess and a cold-blooded socialite. Eventually he managed to divorce them both and enjoy a quiet interlude with a sensible mistress. Since he was not judged fit for public office, he studied history and planned to write the true story of his family. His father Drusus. his brother Germanicus...
...Lehigh Valley amateurs. Like "Mr. Fred," he had players from the Philadelphia Orchestra and four capable soloists (Soprano Ethyl Hayden, Contralto Rose Bampton, Tenor Dan Gridley, Basso Julius Huehn). But with all his display of energy Conductor Carey's interpretations were superficial. And the performances, often muddled and sluggish, gave Bethlehemites good cause for concern over their Bach supremacy. The conductor who presided over the May Festival at Ann Arbor last week was there for his 30th session. He looked old and stooped but his performances never lagged. When he came to the U. S., a violinist from...
...that President Conant is gradually unfolding his plan to inoculate the sluggish mass of Harvard's student body with a more scholarly brand of Freshmen, it is time to consider how to get these scholars here and how to keep them alive in an atmosphere of general mediocrity...
...hours last week Philadelphia was faced with the prospect of having no grand opera next season. The New York Metropolitan announced that it could no longer afford its weekly trips there. Philadelphians, it seemed, had been sluggish about contributing to the Metropolitan's life-or-death drive last spring. Day later, however, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association took most of the sting from the Metropolitan's action by announcing that it would put on opera itself, three performances a week during ten of its 30-week season...