Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attention in the Freshman meet will be focused on Dwight Ellis, elected captain on Monday. He has received only one setback this season--a knockout in the Staunton meet. Coming to Harvard with considerable experience from Culver, he has scored two knockouts, both of them against Varsity men in the M.I.T. and Coast Guard meets...
With only one setback this season, the powerful Freshman swimmers will take the water against Brown this evening at 7.30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building. In the last three meets the Crimson natators have smashed a record or two each time...
With Pete Ward unable to box for the rest of the season because of his appendix, and with Walter Crampton, also a 135-pounder, out with a wrenched ankle, the lineup for the Army meet on Saturday will receive a considerable shift. Ward's loss comes as a major setback, especially since the two hardest contests of the season come within the next two weeks. Rated as the classiest intercollegiate boxer in this section, he has lost just one collegiate bout in three years of competition, that to Louis Wertheimer of Syracuse, the intercollegiate champion...
Most spectacular rise of the year was Camel, whose sales were pulled back to the 1931 level after the disastrous sales results of temporarily abandoning newspaper advertising in 1932. Most spectacular setback was for Lucky Strike which lost 4,500,000,000 in sales. Standard Statistics estimates of domestic consumption from 1929 through 1934 (in billions...
...voters honored him with a Republican State Senate, a State House equally divided between Republicans and Democrats. Then the fire in the Kerns Hotel at Lansing killed off three House Republicans-elect, only one Democrat-elect, leaving him a Democratic House (TIME, Dec. 24). With this setback his job grows harder for he has promised to exempt food from the State's 3% sales tax. That will knock $10,000,000 off the State's revenue and $12,000,000 is what the State has been spending for relief...