Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange man," continued Privat. "He never says anything, but he always does what I tell him. His feelings are entirely in accord with mine. The year 1935 was an exceptionally good year for him. This year 1936 will be less good for him. He will shortly suffer a setback. Thereafter his comeback will be tremendous. He will live a long time and die a great statesman...
Disconcerted by this early setback, the puzzled Crimson five tried to get together, but was unable to click until the last few minutes of play to bring the score, at the end of the period to 17-11 in favor of the visitors...
...strongest Freshman teams to come out of New Haven within the last few years. It is true that their only defeat was received at the hands of Exeter, the one team which the Harvard cubs have been able to take over, but it must also be remembered that this setback was received before the season was much more than a week...
Depression brought a bad setback to mechanization. In the first place, the farmers' gross income dropped from about twelve billion dollars in 1929 to about five billion dollars in 1932. In the second place, falling prices on farm products made mechanical farming uneconomic. With wheat at $1 per bu., the tractor-farmer should make twice as much money as the horse-farmer. With wheat at 40 ? per bu., the horse-farmer may make a little but the tractor-farmer will lose...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...