Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Couldn't Say No-Florence Moore slaps a sluggish affair into a smart success...
Maimed German War veterans exhibiting their stumps, shouting "We fought! You vote!" were motored by Communists and Socialists about German cities last week in an effort to rouse sluggish citizens for the great Referendum (TIME, June 21 et ante) held to deprive Wilhelm II and the erstwhile German nobility without compensation of property valued at five billion gold marks previously seized by the Reich...
...University drew away to an early lead during the opening minutes of the game. The two teams passed the ball among themselves, and little shooting was done, so the game was sluggish at the start. After the Crimson combination had scored nine points to the opponents' five, Tech made a spurt and drew up even before the first time out was called...
Surrounded by dreary houses, blackened by the soot that creeps into the air from factory chimneys and shaken at intervals by sluggish trolley cars, there stands in Cleveland a building known as Slovenian Hall-rendezvous for exiled Serbians, Croatians and Slovenians. Last week this hall blazed with light and wit. The Slovenians of Cleveland entertained their most widely celebrated countryman, Ivan Mestrovic, sculptor. Ivan Zorman, spokesman for Cleveland Slovenians, was toastmaster; other prominent citizens-John Gornik, Frank Tomic, Rev. George Petrovic, Bojeslav Mihalievic, W. M. Milliken- spoke. In the Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculptor Mestrovic's work stood...
...farmer, gets discouraged and begins not doing more than a third or fourth of the things which he is at liberty to do. He begins to see that his profession does not adequately test him for any definite achievement in his line. . . . I am acquainted with no more essentially sluggish, improvident, resourceless, unambitious, and time-wasting creature than the ordinary professor of forty, nor anything more empty of adventure or hope than the future years of his career, daily to be occupied in matching his wits with the flat modiocrity of successive generations of adolescent C-students, and patiently waiting...