Word: sluggish
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...over bridge voice tube that contact had been made. We took station for depth-charge attack. . . . The sub was close aboard, less than 200 yards distant, on our starboard hand. The contact indicated a well-developed one, of the Nipponese variety (very popular with our ships). . . . The sub was sluggish in her movements-she maneuvered slowly, endeavoring to stay within our turning circle, and cross our wake. After a bit of maneuvering, we made our turn, estimated her course, and attacked. A short dash at full speed, a good barrage in the approved spot, and the attack was finished...
Coach Harlow was not too pleased with yesterday's last tough practice session before the Princeton game. Both A and B teams look sluggish running plays through Chief Boston's Freshmen, who faced the Varsity for almost an hour of scrimmage until darkness descended on Soldiers' Field...
Speed was the keynote. The delegates gathered at a luncheon. They churned into six kinds of meat, slushed through bowls of caviar, demolished huge mounds of cheese and butter, knocked down vodka, port and Madeira, wolfed dessert. Then, just in case they might feel sluggish, they drank Russian cocktails...
...Recently they rounded up 32 young men from the "poor white" class. Since these men had no major diseases, most doctors would call them physically fit. But they were dull, undernourished, sluggish, plagued by colds, rheumatism, headaches.' No employer would hire them. Drs. Jokl and Cluver sent them to a Government-sponsored camp, gave them food, exercise, recreation. In six months they produced an improvement "truly remarkable." Soon after the training period, most of the men found good jobs...
Eating. Everybody knows the timid, sluggish, clumsy, socially maladjusted type of fat child. Usually glandular disturbances have taken the blame. But Dr. Hilde Bruch of New York thinks that mollycoddling mothers are often the answer-mothers who forbid their children normal exercise and play for fear they will get hurt, who baby them beyond their needs and age. Such children do little, eat a lot because they have little else to do-a double promoter of obesity...