Word: dampered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summary: RHODE ISLAND HARVARD Messina, Partington, McCarthy, Kogut, r.f l.f., White, Shirk Keaney, Tashjian, Masterson, l.f. r.f., Lavietes, Lowman, McGowan, Litman Martin, c. c., Gray, Herrick Burke, Fabricant, r.g. l.g., Damper, Snell, Mason, Wills Wright, Wightman...
Score--Rhode Island 44, Harvard 28. Goals--Keaney 4, Messina 4, Fabricant 3, Lavietes 3, Gray 3, Martin 2, Burke 2, Snell 2, Tashjian, Partington, White, Damper, Wills. Fouls--Messina 6, Martin 3, Lavietes 2, Willis 2. Tashjian 1, White, Dampeer, Snell. Officials--Clark, Kelleher. Timekeeper--Culver. Time--Two twenty minute periods...
...Claudette Colbert) is aided out of a subway crush by the handsome scion of one of England's best families--she doesn't realize the lofty position of the young man and unbothered by class considerations proceeds to fall quite completely in love with him. This puts a mild damper on her friendship with the likeable young newspaper man with whom she munches popcorn on Thursday evenings as the world passes by their bench in front of the New York Public Library (the unemployed having apparently gone to Florida for their winter vacation). The young Lord leaves, the young lady...
Contemplation of this social phenomenon was interrupted by the noisy arrival of that obsequious slave of the Capitalist State, the Fire Department. With misdirected enthusiasm they cast a damper upon the whole affair. They not only put out the fire but earnestly insisted that they knew nothing whatever as to the whereabouts of the Lindbergh baby. Both actions had a vastly sobering effect on the crowd. Dispirited, the upper middle classes retreated into its painted towers and the mob retired into the arms of its painted women. The Vagabond went and played a haunting melody on the Lowell House bells...
...young, dull or brilliant, Mr. Ohrstrom could scarcely have foreseen in March 1929 that it would rain hardly at all in the summer of 1930. The dryness that year had a desiccating effect upon the revenues of Tri-Utilities' Federal Water Service Corp. This damper summer the president of Federal Water (Christopher Tompkins Chenery) has announced that while earnings are lower, they are steady...