Word: sluggish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Texas and Oklahoma are not independent Balkan powers. If they were, they would have been at war last week, with a frontier bridge across the sluggish Red River as causa belli. As it was, Oklahoma's bewhiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray† declared martial law and called out guardsmen on his side of the river. Half a mile away on the other side, Texas' corpulent Governor Ross Shaw Sterling posted a detachment of his Rangers for military duty. The real fighting, however, was done in the columns of the Press...
Dementia Praecox. That extreme condition of dull wits and sluggish brain called dementia praecox (adolescent insanity) affects so many people in the U. S. that all the hospitals of the country could not contain them. Roy Graham Hoskins of Boston counted 140,000 in mental hospitals alone. The need for solution of the dementia praecox problem "is exigent," yet it "is being grossly neglected." Signs of this mental disease are constant melancholy and self-absorption. Bad cases behave like very young, helpless children...
...Tarrytown, N. Y. Chamber of Commerce last week chose an ingenious method to pump money through local business arteries whose circulation has grown sluggish with Depression. Five dollar checks were sold to Chamber members and members of patriotic organizations, each recipient promising to pay an old debt or buy merchandise with his checks within 24 hours. As the checks cannot be banked until after June 30, each one will theoretically change hands 30 times, do $150 worth of business. Tarrytown hopes to wipe $60,000 in old accounts off its books by the end of the month...
...army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) is a sluggish, fat, green thing striped with a nauseous yellow. Army cutworms march on wheatfields in squadrons. Each soldier worm chooses his spear of wheat. Carefully he cuts it down, ignores the grain, devours the root, moves on to the next spear. An army of worms cuts a clean swath across any field it enters, then cuts another swath. A listener can hear the concerted champing of their mandibles...
Facing a strong team from Vermont on Saturday, the first two days are to be devoted to drill in handling the ball, and to speeding up the passing, which the recent game with C. C. N. Y. revealed as sluggish. A day will then be devoted to defense work, another on the offense, leaving Friday open for light scrimmage...