Word: stagnant
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...into compact sections of twenty to thirty members and allow his assistants to do the lecuring on a small scale. This would give that personal instruction which is so necessary to a subject resembling both geometry and algebra. In addition it would eliminate much of the time wasted in stagnant perplexity during the laboratory period. As for reforming the reading material, we can suggest nothing better than to hustle Professor Frickey over to the nearest publisher and Problems" enlarged to text-book dimensions. If he will retain their leisurely throughness and simplicity, his "Notes" should have no peer...
...those that dwell beyond the Sea." This indicates that the tablets were written between 485 B. C., when he mounted the throne, and 480 when, bamboozled by Themistocles, he sent his fleet to be soundly whipped by the Greeks at Salamis. After that his empire fell stagnant and he was finally murdered by a vizier...
Died. Arthur ("Uncle Arthur") Henderson, 72, president of the stagnant World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, Nobel Prizewinner for Peace (1934), in London...
...dormie" (as many holes down as holes to play) when in fact his opponent is dormie. But he may say, "I am dormie down" (vulgarism). Origin of the word is obscure, but some authorities think it may spring from teh French dormir (to sleep, to be stagnant...
...bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...