Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since most of the injuries stem from sloppy individual technique caused by poor condition, the Varsity trainer encourages his charges to get into top physical shape and stay that way all season, with no letdowns for "just one Lucky or one quick beer." The only time a player may legitimately partake of anything stronger than rootbeer is when he's flat on his back on the field inhaling from a bottle of ammonia. On this point, the Varsity footballers agree. "What the hell," most of them will tell you, "it's just common sense...
...Those poor souls whose work-a-day lives are punctuated by the pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
Last fall, college officials recognized the need for student garage space, but discarded their idea of cross-Charles lots as a poor financial gamble when the plan received little response from car owners. Of the 110 men reporting no storage space, only fifty-five percent showed any interest in a parking area twenty minutes away from the Houses. With a tacit understanding between police and students owning out-of-state vehicles, most men found it convenient to leave cars on the street overnight, secure in the knowledge that their tickets would not be prosecuted. This autumn, in an effort...
...kudos: a gold medal for Roma's dry vermouth, a silver medal for Wine Growers Guild's grape brandy, gold medals for Italian Swiss Colony's Pinot Noir and California port. But for 14 different varieties out of the 45 judged, the entries were so poor that no gold medals were awarded. This was thin news for the industry, already harassed by the same drop in sales that had hit liquor companies. With much of last year's record crush still unsold, vintners plan to crush less this year -and hope that the public...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...