Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...
...when such affairs ended, and the candidate, even if passed, was in a slough of despond over his showing, Mr. Kittredge, whose own vast strength was accompanied by mersy could pour out grace abounding upon the chief of sinners...
Last week the oldest and the biggest decided to pool their facilities and troubles, become Standard & Poor's Corp., slough off Standard's expensive printing plant, do business henceforth with a combined staff of about 900. Chairman of the board of the new company is Paul Babson, 46, cousin of famed Statistician Roger Ward Babson, who runs the Babson Statistical Organization. With the Standard-Poor's merger, the Babson family moves a long way toward cornering the market on advisory services. Other Paul Babson enterprises: his own United Business Service, a directorship in the Kiplinger Washington Agency...
...Crimson potentialities is due to that intangible something called team morale. Working together, Captain Pren Willetts and Hodder have been trying all season to whip a little esprit de corps into an unusually listless squad, and at last the team the team is snapping out of the Slough of Despond which has handicapped it all year...
...reporters not to expect miracles; the measure's full force will take some four years to effect. But Ramspeck estimated that about 25% of those Government workers now employed will fail to pass the required noncompetitive examination, must then be dropped within six months. Thus the Government will slough off some 50,000 workers as incompetent or unfit, 5% of all U. S. employes...