Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zoopark found its cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back. . . . We don't need to balance...
...section of the U. S. Because of the slump in automobiles, trade in the Detroit area was off 26% in January from January 1937. New England trade was down 21% as its rambling textile mills operated on a 3-day week. Glass, steel and auto-part mills were listless in northern Ohio. Northern Illinois trade shrank as Chicago unemployment grew. In Manhattan trade volume plumped 19% with cinemansions and department stores feeling the pessimism of Wall Street...
Obviously hampered by their loss of Charlie Lutz, first string forward who was injured in the Cornell game, the Crimson played a listless game, leading the Lions on only one occasion...
...numbers relatively small* and its antecedents plain, fights Socialized Medicine tooth & nail. Cried A. D. A. President Winter in his farewell address last week: "While history is in the making it is not for the American Dental Association to sit on the side lines after the manner of listless spectators. . . . The outstanding trend in national and world affairs today is toward the establishment of economic dictatorship. . . . It has been suggested that a plan of insurance practice might be established by the Government guaranteeing each dentist a certain amount of practice, for which he would be paid by the Government. . . . What...
...Aesop's Fables in his youthful tenor. It was 11:55 Prn. when the Senate finally gave in. But the House, though too tired for adjournment horseplay, could not stop talking. Not until 12:39 a. m. did Speaker Bankhead's gavel ring to a halt the listless end of the 74th Congress' listless second & last session...