Word: sluggish
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...foreign loans would soon firm up existing low interest rates. Commodity prices, leaving out such obviously exceptional cases as staple grains, seemed to be fully firming up -but whether as a result of the long-predicted "gold inflation" or not cannot yet be determined. Industrially, it is a sluggish Summer. Agriculturally, it has been surprisingly prosperous. Financially, most signs point to a broad recovery in the Fall, particularly if Mr. Coolidge is reelected. Politically, this seems most likely...
...Fate, in this struggle for existence, dooms animals to be quick or to be dead, and the frog who allows his body temperature to sink on a cold day will find his muscles too sluggish for him to escape the experimenting biologist. It is only through exerting his metabolic functions in muscular action that he can raise his temperature...
...Great sluggish idiot with slobbered jaw". And "Eve" and "song Heard by St. Anthony" show him not deficient in imagination...
...beginning to be entertained in Wall Street as to the ability of this movement to endure. As a result, prices of shares on the Stock Exchange have proved irregular at high levels, with speculative reactions and rallies of only day to day significance. Meanwhile, gilt-edged bonds have proved sluggish, and have shown an unmistakable tendency to decline under the prospect, already realized in some measure, of higher money rates. Weaker bonds, however, have risen rather than declined in many instances, owing to their improved position following better corporate net earnings. French government dollar issues have proved strong...
...entire game and though they carried it down to the goal time and again, they were consistently stopped by Captain S. E. Gray at left fullback. A. L. Phaneuf and C. R. Brooks, too, played their positions well, but all their activity was of no avail with a sluggish forward line. The only score of the game was made by Slagle on a kick from directly in front of the goal. The shot; though stopped at first, bounced off the goaler's body through the posts...