Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada to Recess. Looking out at the Dominions, The Commercial sees A SHADOW OVER CANADA: Two Crop Failures In Succession, adds: "It is now evident that the trade of the Dominion has received a severe setback [crop failure . . . falling off in production . . . decline in earnings of industry . . . collapse of the stock market], and in place of the lulls which have occurred from time to time in the past six years there will be a definite recession...
...better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality to the desert air is going to receive another setback...
...Elis laced the University Club skaters 1 to 0 and 3 to 1, whereas the Cantabridgians eked out 4 to 3 and 2 to 1 wins. The Hanover Indians have twice bitten the dust before the marauding Blue, but there were extenuating circumstances in the case of their frightful setback not so long ago. Ice just wouldn't freeze in Hanover in those days. Since then such matters have been remedied, the Green squad has been strengthened and Harvard will have a real job on its hands to carry away the scalps. And it might also be well to notice...
...importance of the Classics in Princeton as compared with that in several other universities, has revealed facts and suggested plans that are of particular interest to Harvard. Statistics that show both Harvard and Chicago following Princeton in proportionate numbers of concentrators in the Classics may give a slight setback to the prevalent opinion that the first two strongholds of ancient literatures, but universities are the especial American these direct results of the investigation are less significant than the project for reviving the study of antiquity by means of translations...