Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business experience popped fitfully in & out of this political career: at 23 he was secretary of the Railway Committee of Central South African Railways; at 53 he was briefly Governor of the National Bank of Scotland. An improvising administrator, he works by fits & starts, grows inert and sluggish unless...
...such incidents multiplied, all Europe looked anxiously toward the valley of that great, sluggish river which Germans call Donau, Slavs Dunav, Magyars Duna, Rumanians Dunarea, English -speaking peoples Danube (see map). The nations of the Danube Basin knew their danger, knew also that for their chances of remaining unmolested a little longer they could thank the richness of their valley, since would-be conquerors might well destroy the prize they covet...
...this film version of a Pulitzer prize play is an authentic, moving account of how a sluggish rail-splitter turned President. Hollywood has withstood the temptation to be spectacularly patriotic; and the result is one of those rare historical pictures which are devoid of all furor and fuss...
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 28--By a close 2 to 1 decision at the Hobey Baker Rink tonight, the injury-ridden Varsity hockey team bowed to a sluggish Tiger sextet to give Princeton first place in the Quadrangular League...
...doors of economic opportunity barricaded to youth by the sluggish condition of American enterprise...