Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely inferior to its predecessors of the past few years, it has shown steady and marked improvement during the past four weeks. The lowest ebb of the season was reached early in February when Hodder's streak of thirty consecutive victories was snapped by the B.U. Freshmen. This setback seems to have provided the spark that was lacking, and since then the team has looked like a completely new outfit...
Meantime Generalissimo Franco's lines, which more than half-encircled Madrid like a giant horseshoe, receded or advanced as alternating sallies of the Red Militia and the White Army met with setback or success. White troops, however, were saying confidently that "the fall of Madrid is only a matter of hours...
...exception of the Tercentenary, nothing has been watched by Harvard this season with greater interest than the performance of the football team. The thunderclap of last Saturday's defeat at the hands of an unusually skilled West Point team is viewed by the undergraduate body as a mere setback which should not cast the bar sinister across the rest of the season...
...weeks, U. S. copper men have been arguing whether they should boost their price from 9.75? to 10? per lb. Fortnight ago, the idea got a stiff setback when potent Kennecott announced it had plenty to sell at the present price, promptly increased its output 25% rather than take a chance on having a runaway market at a higher price. Last week, U. S. copper men were still wary enough to make no price advance even in the face of the foreign rise, although in the past such an action would have been almost automatic...
Meantime the stockmarket has gradually moved up to its old New Deal high made last April. At that time a general reappraisal of the business outlook seemed in order and stock prices subsequently suffered their first serious setback in more than a year (TIME, May 4). Significant to market chartists, nevertheless, is the fact that the recent recovery has not been a strong enough to carry the stock averages through their old tops...