Word: sluggish
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Philosophy A could be a course to challenge the intellectual curiosity of all but the most sluggish student, but succeeds only in bewildering the few who can manage to maintain interest in a large and poorly managed course...
...Hammersmith Bridge, a good length at Duke's Meadows, a length and one-half at Barnes Bridge when Oxford made a last forlorn bid to close the open water, two lengths and one-half at the finish at Mortlake, in 20 min. 57 sec., slow time with a sluggish tide...
...Tough little Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship...
...sluggish duodenum may let poisons get into the system. In some cases poorly functioning livers or kidneys seem to be the blame...
This year is Goliath IIs fifth in captivity, and as winter waned at his Florida quarters he began to grow listless, sluggish. He would not eat. His cavernous trumpetings became dismal, froggy croaks. Trainers, seeing the remaining half of a $10,000 investment shedding weight at the rate of 10 Ib. a day, called doctor after doctor, but no physician's hand could feel that flapping pulse, no stethoscope could reveal the disorder beneath a hide thick as a truck tire. Last week Goliath II still lay in Sarasota and the Circus went on without...