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Word: sluggishness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lord Lothian's Job | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Valley of Conquest | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SEXTET BOWN TO TIGER ATTACK, 2-1 | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...doors of economic opportunity barricaded to youth by the sluggish condition of American enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICAN PROGRAM: For Dynamic America | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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