Word: poore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale was off to a poor start this season, losing the first ten games straight. Blue chances looked poor until Larry Kelley and Bob Beckwith joined the team in mid-season to swing the Elis into the winning column. With this new combination as mainstay, Yale has won six of its last eight games...
Consistent with your obvious bias against the U. S. S. R. is your reference to Stalin as a "terrorist" while withholding the same qualification from Hitler and Mussolini. . . . The labor movement, the proletariat as a whole can expect nothing but sniggering from a magazine whose heart bleeds over poor J. P. Morgan having to answer questions before a horrid munitions investigating committee. Your cut of a Morgan partner exposed to the "cold stare" of a committee clerk was a perfect illustration of your antipathy...
...rumors that Coach Spears would be fired. After the season, 220-lb. Captain-elect John Golemgeske of Waukesha cornered Director Meanwell, said he represented 18 squad members who desired Spears' dismissal. The "Little Doctor" told him to present it in writing. Soon afterward, the football squad celebrated its poor season at a local roadhouse. Golemgeske dragged his supporters into the men's room, put the question to them. Seen there by an assistant coach, he was taken before Spears who plied him with drinks and questions...
...Sledding. Before the Games started, major bob-sled controversies concerned: 1) the poor condition of the run, which U. S. Driver Hubert Stevens described as "unsound" and 2) the bad effect on it of U. S. runners, which are sharper than those of European bobsleds. Most romantic casualty of the week was Donna Fox, a Bronx undertaker who, after sustaining a bruised ear when his sled tipped over on a curve, ungraciously blamed the accident on the poor construction of the run. Fastest practice runs of the week were made by Hubert Stevens, who won the two-man event...
...picture on the box. Reversing a lower court ruling by which a Milwaukee manufacturer had been enjoined from producing a "Franklin D. Roosevelt" cigar because another firm had got one on the market ahead of him, Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry declared: "The fact that it is in poor taste and shocks our sense of propriety . . . does not make it illegal or unlawful...