Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Freshman nine had little difficulty in downing the schoolboys by the score of 8 to 1. A number of errors, coupled with rather sluggish infield work, were responsible for the large score. The weak pitching staff of the Concord team was another factor in the yearling victory, for none of the three men whom Coach Winsor sent to the box were able to stop the Crimson attack...
Though the Red and Gray quintet outplayed their opponents throughout the entire game, their superiority was most evident at the start. During the whole of the first half Coach Tolbert's men seemed sluggish. Their poor passing and careless shooting was a marked cantrast to the smooth team-work and effective marksmanship of the Exeter combination. With the second half, however, the 1925 men improved and forced their oppoents to fight for every point...