Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four against Bowdoin today. They combine at the number two doubles position. At the singles five and six slots are Jack Frey and Jay Robb. Dave Key of ice fame joins Robb in the third doubles combination. In spite of a comparatively late starting season and the usually poor Hub tennis weather, these four have rounded into shape...
...Poor baserunning by the Terriers contributed heavily to their defeat, as they strove repeatedly and vainly to stretch singles into doubles and doubles into triples. One man was thrown out stealing home with the bases loaded and one out, and two doubles in one inning failed to produce a run for the BU freshmen...
Golden Bullets. In that struggle, money -i.e., private investment-is as basic as hard work. Since 1898 the U.S.-which was first indifferent and then embarrassed about the poor child on its doorstep-has spent over a billion dollars in or on Puerto Rico. Last year the Federal Government, in one way or another, spent $101 million in the island...
...Fair: Poor. The first postwar German trade fair in the U.S., sponsored by the Allied Military Government, finished its 16-day stand in Manhattan. Orders were heaviest for china ($250,000), office machinery ($120,000) and cameras and optical instruments ($100,000). Total business was a low $1,200,000, but the Germans hoped the sample orders would eventually bring many more...
With MIT getting off on a poor start and BU as usual rowing at a high stroke, the Crimson jayvees rested in second place for a minute or two before they pulled out into the lead...