Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long. It produces a thin, cloudy, slightly alkaline, albuminous secretion, the physiological function of which is to increase the swimming speed of the microscopic male seed from a sluggish low to a high of one inch in two minutes...
...yard line as a result of his efforts. Harvard on the other hand, was within short striking distance of the Holy Cross goal line twice, when the attack stalled in face of the determined defense of the opposing forwards. The Crimson had plenty of power, but it was often sluggish and blundering. It lacked a reliable ground-gaining play, such as the Purple off-tackle thrust, to deliver the scoring punch...
...intelligence. Idiocy, in their thoughtless declarations, was now curable. Dr. Steinach last week emphatically assured the world that it was not an elixir of intelligence, but might be called an elixir "of temperament, because it is a natural stimulant." It restores overworked and overtired nerves to normal and makes sluggish animals active...
...terrified fascination, mumbling prayers that the engulfing flood would spend itself before it reached their homes. Hot ashes filled the air for miles around. A wall of steaming, writhing lava rolled fearfully along the Valley of Hell, smashing fences and houses before it, burying vineyards forever under a smoking, sluggish mass...
Smalltown newspapers are fun to publish. Along with the small town and county and state news there sometimes comes a chance to champion a cause, to cry a crime, to excite a people, usually a sluggish, smalltownish people. Such a chance came less than a month ago to "the youngest newspaper staff in the country" (not a man over 32)-the staff of the Cherokee Times of Gaffney, a hilltown on the northern edge of South Carolina with a population of 10,000 (including Negroes...