Word: set-back
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...through his wool jacket, and the new grass was coming softly through the raked brown earth. The steps of Widener were wide and white, he thought, starting up--in all the years, though, he hadn't learned a satisfactory way to climb them. Too low, and yet to much set-back for two-at-a-time, but he arrived at the top, and started to push in. Passing the man in the cage he stopped; it reminded him of coming out again, with the book. What book? Why get it? You don't need it, he realized...
...social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis in America," by George Goldstein, appears to be a digest of an honors thesis and is consequently well backed up by statistics. It suffers only slightly from the dry jargon of academic economics. He sets up the proposition that within the next two years the American economy will face a serious set-back, thanks to the lack of profitable investment outlets, the continued growth of monopoly, and the lack of purchasing power in the lower income brackets. His six point program to avert the crisis reads like a liberal's dream...
With Captain Bob Gale, Cornell's high-scoring, former all-Ivy League pivot man, out for the season with an injury, the Big Red suffered a severe set-back in their championship hopes last week when Columbia drubbed them, 41 to 27, sending them into a second place tie with Pennsylvania at four wins and three losses...
...posible reason for last week's set-back is the fact that the Bruins have had little time to learn the system of their new coach, Wilbur Ewbank, who took over the reins this fall. But according to the word from Providence, Ewbank's team is rapidly mastering the fast breaking system he has brought with him from Miami (Ohio) and Great Lakes...
...prejudice. Why the University officials should choose a small group of thirty people on which to enforce their antiquated "Blue Laws" is unapparent to me. Harvard and Radcliffe classes are combined and the two colleges are very closely knit. It seems absurd to deal Cambridge and Harvard such a set-back in choral music...