Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...itself, Stan Musial's slump might not have been so bad-but most of his teammates were following his example. And the pitching was poor too. The proud Cardinals, World's Series winners last year and favorites to repeat this year, tail-spinned into a nine-game losing streak-their worst in nine years. It was too soon to count them out, but soon enough to start worrying...
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill said: "I am an ordinary man who refuses to be bamboozled." But Eric Gill, born in 1882 as the second of a poor nonconformist minister's 13 children, was far from ordinary. One of England's top sculptors and wood carvers, he was also a Christian whose religious simplicity led him to beat a hasty and disgusted retreat from the great names of the art world...
Needed: A Canal. But Jewell and his fellow citizens won't be satisfied till New Orleans rivals New York, to which it is now a poor second in dollar volume, fourth in tonnage. They argue that its loading facilities are the most efficient in the land; ships can dock without tugs and a ton of freight can be loaded for $1.03, compared to $1.66 in New York...
...already skimmed the cream. Last week WAA Boss Robert McGowan Little-John reported that WAA still has $13 billion of unsold surpluses on hand. But he did not think much of this could be sold. His chances of selling much of what's left seem so poor that he plans to ask Congress to let him give it to public schools, or scrap it to save upkeep costs...
...damnable it is to poor Aurélien. Two fat volumes after he falls for little, country-bred Berenice, this normally irresistible Paris playboy has hardly mussed her hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going...