Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standard was not maintained. The club easily fell into a slump. The inducement of a 2000-mile Christmas trip to the chief cities where loyal alumni trotted forth adulatory debutantes in honor of bum actors, but ball-room luminaries; and the influence of the typical Broadway musical comedy, completed the wreck. The personnel was chosen with an eye for pleasing these feminine sycophants. The performance was lightly considered; the real work of the evening began on the waxed floor after the final curtain had rung down. The play itself was pitifully colorless: an unmitigated burlesque from its slap-stick dialogue...
With the cessation of hostilities and the signing of the armistice, large arma ments fell into disrepute among the Allied powers of Europe, England, France, and Italy alike scrapped hundred of ships, stopped building dreadnoughts, placed many of the old ones out of commission, and reduced naval property an personnel wherever possible. Besides being decidedly economical, it was felt that this policy would indicate general confidence and more firmly establish peaceful friendships...
...successful season, defeating Yale both in the dual meet and in the Intercollegiates. Besides taking second place in the Intercollegiates, being defeated only by the crack Annapolis team, the team went through the season with only one defeat, and this at the hands of Columbia. Among the colleges which fell before the University fencers were Bowdoin, M. I. T., Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, New York Military Academy, Yale and Columbia in the Intercollegiates. Not counting the scores of the Intercollegiates, the team rolled up 51 points to its opponents...
...yearlings uncorked a series of punishing line bucks and brought the score up to 17 to 14. A few seconds before the final whistle, Gehrke's kick, though blocked, rebounded from the back of a crimson-jerseyed player and rolled 20 yards toward the tigers' goal where a yearling fell on it. Encouraged by this turn in fortune, the Freshmen pushed down the field to their opponents 20-yard mark. Jenkins, although withdrawn on account of injuries, returned to the game and dropped a pretty field goal over the crossbar for the final three points...
...reaction came, however, about the first of 1920, when the public finally decided that it had had enough. Demand fell off almost overnight and merchants found themselves with much merchandise and little trade. Wholesale business came to a standstill in many lines. Prices began to fall on raw materials and are being reflected in wholesale quotations. The following table will give you an idea of the effect of this readjustment on some of our staples. Commodity. Jan.1920. Present Price. Percentage. of Jan. Price. Beans, bushel, $4.65 $3.50 75% Cocoa, .22 .10 45 Coffee, .15 1/2 .07 1/2 48 Cotton...