Word: slump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sections of the country a further lowering in gasoline prices, leading petroleum men are beginning to see blue sky on the horizon again. Standard oil-usually a good judge of such matters-has shown its faith in the future of the oil business by taking advantage of the present slump to buy up producing companies. Furthermore, the Lamp-house-organ of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey -now has designated next June as the probable time when consumption would again overtake production and lead to a decline in surplus stocks...
...next week a slight slump came in the Yale play as might have been expected after the Army contest. Maryland invaded the Bowl with a strong eleven which proceeded to cross the Blue goal line twice before the first period had ended. Yale was dumbfounded. Soon, however, the visitors' attack began to break and the Bulldog eleven awoke to the task before it. in the second half, showing another great comeback as decisive as the one against the Army. Yale launched her offensive and ultimately won 16 to 14. But the Blue defense throughout the game was weak...
...these indications point to a harder hitting Harvard team than has been seen yet this season. With the perennial mid October slump now a thing of the past, the Harvard team is entering on the last month of its season. With a victory today, the coaches can continue their preparations with a renewed confidence that the team will not be wanting in its big games at the end of the season...
...Tiny, but her ancestors were against her-she couldn't be a bad woman no matter how hard she tried. And besides Tiny respected her too much -so she simply had to marry him. Things went all right for a while, but then Tiny fell into a batting-slump and Judith refused to ETO to Cuba with him after the World's Series because she could not get a passport except in her married name. So Tiny painted Cuba pink in the company of a vaudeville soubrette, " Toots " Trimble, and grew fat and pasty. He returned to Judith...
...great world if you weaken just a little" is undoubtedly one of the pernicious phrases which indicate the nation-wide slump in morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable...