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Thanks to TIME, I now realize that the inept Democrats can't even cry in the same league with the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1952 | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

...veteran Green team that enters the Stadium today is a paradox of fumbles, interceptions, sometimes powerful, often inept defense and somewhat impotent offense...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Veteran Green Team Has 9 Starting Lettermen, Good Potential, One Win | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...Crimson junior varsity managed to stay on side often enough to score five touchdowns and crush an inept Dean Academy team, 33 to 14, in a sloppy game at Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Jayvess Stop Dean Academy Here, 33-14; Crimson Penalties Are No Help to Losers | 10/18/1952 | See Source »

...great relaxation at Holmes is the elevator war. When all 105 girls want to go up or down at approximately the same time, and only one elevator exists for that purpose, the call button scramble demands a good deal of timing. The inept can hear the elevator going up and down time and time again, never stopping because their button-pushing is always a half second slower than that of more skilled competitors...

Author: By Erik Amfitheatrof, | Title: Holmes: The Pine Wonder | 10/7/1952 | See Source »

...until the second half of the varsity game that Harvard showed any of the potentialities that it had exhibited in practice previously. Perhaps due to the long train trip taken the morning of the game, the Crimson never got going in the first two periods, and played inept and logy soccer against an aggressive opponent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Bows To Williams in First Game | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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