Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family air yacht," a four-passenger dirigible newly built by Capt. Anton Heinen, bobbed at its stubby mooring mast at Toms River, N. J. one chilly afternoon last week. When the engine refused to start, two young mechanics applied a compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...game as a whole was sluggish and both teams played raggedly. H. H. Broadbent '31, made all of the goals for Harvard, while Krementz made Wesleyan's single point...
...greatest speed. Last week economists, statisticians, chart readers anxiously awaited the first indication of what business will do after this year's turn. It will probably speed up. The question: Will its advance be as great as that of a normal year, or will it be a sluggish, short response which, in a weighted chart, would represent decline? Factors began to appear last week. The Market. As if in anticipation of the long-rumored "bull market after Labor Day," the market began steadying last fortnight, crept higher last week. Brokers, as usual, issued bullish letters, said further reactions will...
Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
...Chicago. Young Stribling, sluggish Georgia heavyweight famed for his ferocity when fighting mediocre opponents and for his ability to cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat's jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted...