Word: sluggishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcer class, one destined to live and flourish in Harvard, is the newly reorganized Student Council, Reduced in size by one-half, its manner of election radically changed, it retains scarcely a vestige of resemblance to the Councils of forme3r years. There is hope it retains none of their sluggish in activity...
What of this? Along its sluggish surface, one J. Padden, world's professional sculling champion, last week propelled himself and his slender shell fast enough to put six lengths between him and Alfred Felton, 1919 champion...
...common knowledge that the sluggish Anglo-Russian Conference (TiME, Apr. 28 et seq.) would one day be quickened into action and stir the world with "well, well's," or "I told you so's." First, news came that the negotiations had failed. The world said: "I told you so." Then Ramsay said: "This will never do." An understanding was patched up. The world said: "Well, well...
...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...