Word: listless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bout won by Creighton University's Footballer Carl Vinciquerra, who beat to a pulp the handsome face of plucky, tattooed William Townsend, who junketed 5,000 mi. from his U. S. Army post in Hawaii for the tournament. ¶ The heavyweight championship in which the listless performance of winning Negro Arthur Oliver and losing Negro Willis Johnson again prompted spectators to boo. Unprecedented result was that to Berlin this summer will go a U. S. Olympic boxing team composed of four whites, four blacks...
...more successful were the results which Philadelphia's Drs. Harry Lowenburg and Theodore M. Ginsburg attained by poisoning two purpuric little boys with parathyroid hormone. That hormone increased the amount of calcium in the children's blood to such an extent that they vomited persistently, became listless. When the children were on the verge of dying from hypercalcemia. the doctors stopped the parathyroid injections. At once the victims perked up, ceased vomiting-and ceased purpuric bleeding. Last week Drs. Lowenburg and Ginsburg ventured: "A cause and effect relationship between the hypercalcemia and the apparent cures is suggested, although...
Starting with a listless first period in which there was no scoring, the game was livened up in the second stanza as Dunham of the home team scored twice in rapid succession on nice passes from Knowles and Gibson...
Showing the worst basketball it has played this season, the Freshman Quintet won an easy game from Lawrence Academy last night 41-18. In spite of the fact that the Yearlings held their opponents to a single field goal in the first half, their play was listless, and they lacked the fight which distinguished their early season games...
Sylvia Sydney comes out of her listless emotions long enough to give a fine performance in "Mary Burns, Fugitive". The title sounds ridiculously like a dime novel and the story follows that pattern but it is well worth seeing anyway if you like gangsters and strong-minded hero-explorers. Sylvia is much better looking with her hair fixed and Melvyn Douglas is excellent as the man whom she would like to marry if she could but can't because she has been in jail. They marry anyhow...