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Show Many Forms of "Slug." "Slug," as used In connection with college football, Is own bother to tlio KngllKh "slog" nnd akin to "slay." Absolutely Ab-solutely different In origin ns In mean-lngl mean-lngl Is the other verb, "slug," allied to "slouch" nnd "slack," which Sponsor used Intransitively when lie wroto of "shiRglnK all night In a cabin," and Milton transitively when ho declared that episcopacy "wors .8 and sluggs tho most learned and seeming religious relig-ious of our ministers." N,obody knows to which of tho two families "slug," a crudely shaped bullet, belongs. Is It something with which ono slogs? Or something ns heavy as a "slug," or "sluggish" porson? Or wns It supposed sup-posed to resemble tlio slug that crawls In gardens? |