Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army defeated its fourth* Western invader, St. Louis, in a sluggish contest...
...miscegenation of liberal arts and business science has been fruitful in unnatural monsters, in which the more brutish or commercial traits obliterate the human and academic nature. The attempt to infuse a strong dose of business training into the sluggish veins of impractical humanism destroys, rather than modifies the academic nature of the college. The professors of commercial science seem determined to scrape the ivy and mould from off the academic wall, and to replace aesthetics by the applied philosophy of the "go-getter...
...Prevalent Immorality. The thesis was: "If it is immoral to needlessly impair the body's vitality, then lack of sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely...
...fallen short. Coach Fisher's team had and used the right play at the right moment. Two linebucks netted little. Then Hammond negotiated a perfect pass to McGlone who tore to the three-yard line from which Howe carried the ball over. There was no hesitancy, no faulty, sluggish play in the whole procedure...
...backfield has plenty of power but is rather sluggish...