Word: sluggishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...
...hummingbird. Even the workaday turboprop (a gas turbine that delivers power through a shaft, not through a jet of gas) is hard to adapt to ground uses. Chief failings: 1) poor fuel economy, especially at low speed. 2) cost of heat-resistant parts, 3) sluggish response when power is called...
...cost of power makes the plant a paying proposition already. Some of the materials needed, e.g., bauxite, have already been discovered in the Cameroons, will eventually be used to make the plant's operation even cheaper. The plant is a big boost to the Cameroons' sluggish economy, now based almost entirely on agriculture. A tax-paying industry that will pour money into the public treasury, Alucam will also give work to 500, increase rail and harbor traffic, further encourage the search for minerals...
...claims. Rich Marcel Boussac, France's biggest owner of textile mills, became concerned. He reasoned that the prestige of Paris' couturiers directly affected the sale of textiles produced by his mills. He set out to find a. new designer who could inject fresh vitality into Paris' sluggish salons. Friends sent him Dior...
...tremendous spirit of the team, in fact, has infected usually sluggish I.A.B. crowds. There once was a time when people went to see Harvard play for one of two reasons: to demonstrate their ability to heckle from the stands, or to see some outstanding opponents in action. There were very few real Crimson rooters...