Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson led at only one point in the game--and that in the opening moment. This was not the same team that returned after a poor first half last Saturday night to overcome the Quakers. The varsity was shoddy on defense, and impotent on offense. And the return to form of ailing Penn ace Bob Mlkvy did not substantially aid the Crimson's cause...
...Mlkvy's brilliant performance was only half of the story; the consistently terrible play of the Crimson was the other. Forced into taking poor shots--usually from beyond the 20-foot mark, the varsity was able to convert only 19 of 80 field goal attempts for an unhappy 23 per cent...
...first Jacchia sought some connection between solar flares and the acceleration of the satellites. When the flares proved too erratic he turned to geomagnetic data. Again the correlation was poor...
...candidate meets the entrance intelligence requirements, but is inadequately prepared because of poor local schooling the fund may also be used to support him for an extra year of preparatory or summer school...
Wrathfully, Catherine lectures her bullfighter: "You said the scum of Europe came to us, and perhaps they did, but the strong ones came first . . . well, there's a poem on the Statue of Liberty . . ." And sure enough, she quotes Emma Lazarus ("Give me your tired, your poor'') for five lines. Repentantly the torero discovers the real America: accepting the yanqui dollar, the moral seems to be, does not mean wearing the yanqui collar...