Word: sluggish
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...gifted, furthermore, with a remarkable creative power in English expression, especially in extempore speech, pungent, vivid, finding always--if sometimes he had to make it--the fit word; impetuous, generous, the soul of honor, scornful of meanness and falsehood, swift in thought and manner, too swift at times for sluggish wits...
Owing to the unfavorable weather recently, the Freshman baseball squad, now numbering 21 men, has not made much advancement. There is material for a good team, but the practice is still sluggish and inaccurate. Two teams played a scrub game yesterday, coached by N. S. Bartlett '03. O. G. Frantz '03 will take charge of the squad early next week...
Both the batting and fielding of the University squad yesterday was the most listless seen this year, and even at this early date seemed most discouraging. The infield candidates held practice for the first time on the diamond, and in this department also, the men were slow and sluggish. The Freshman squad held practice of much the same nature. This squad has now been reduced to 34 men, excluding the battery candidates...
During the last few days the Harvard eleven has been improving slowly, but neither individually nor as a unit has it shown great promise. At times the play is almost sluggish and the tendency toward unsteadiness makes the strength of the team very uncertain...
Lewis S. Dabney, representing the Beacon street residents objected to the dam on the grounds that it would create a mill-pond, full of sewage, with a sluggish river flowing into...