Word: sloppyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Right Man. Of all the men now living and working on the frozen continent, few are better fitted by character, inclination and background for the assignment than Siple. Even with Byrd's first expedition he quickly won his explorer's spurs. A 19-year-old whose boyhood...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra; Soloists ; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler; Victor, 2 LPs). A performance on a memorable occasion: the reopening of Wagner's Festspielhaus at Bayreuth in 1951. The recording has a predominantly heavy effect, partly because of foggy fidelity, and there are some...
¶ The "Big Game," the almost always spirited Army-Navy scrap for the service championship, was a big bust. Army fumbled away chances to run up a score; Navy scuttled its own attack while its sloppy defense did little more than watch the soldiers stop themselves. The game ended, as...
In general, they also do well with their studies: they have been valedictorians, class presidents and successful college students. Meanwhile, they learn to get over such "blindisms" as the habit of poking at their eyes, of sprawling in their seats (because they cannot see how sloppy they look), and walking...
Despite sloppy ball-handling and shooting, the varsity was never in trouble. Wesleyan could not keep up with the fast-breaking quintet when it chose to run, or with the slow, calculating five when it chose to play control ball. After the margin mounted to 53 to 28, substitutes entered...