Word: slump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University team has experienced a slight slump this week, but the vacation of the past two days has been the best possible preparation for today's match...
...Orange and Black has lost five college games so far and each time the team was far below standard. Holy Cross had little difficulty in making use of the numerous Tiger errors for a 9-1 victory, while a batting slump was responsible for the loss to Cornell by the score of 5-1. In its last game the Orange and Black barely lost to Dartmouth when the superior hitting of the Green gave them a 4-3 victory...
...this standard throughout the season. Several times it has made poor showings at critical periods. In the Holy Cross contest the Orange and Black fielders made a string of errors which accounted for seven runs in a 9-1 defeat at the hands of the Worcester team. A batting slump gave the Cornell nine an easy 5-1 victory, while poor pitching was responsible for a defeat at the hands of Dartmouth. In short the Tiger play is erratic and the outcome of tomorrow's contest will depend greatly upon their ability to make use of the power they have...
...strong Andover five, a victory lessened in value by a second game in which the Freshmen succumbed by a score of 36-32. Following the first Andover game, the yearlings were able to defeat the M. I. T. Freshmen by a two-point margin before falling into the slump that cost them defeats by Exeter, Dartmouth '25, Andover, and finally on March 11 by the Yale Freshmen...
...decent men in this country want peace. The American people are undergoing a moral revival after the slump immediately succeeding that golden age of statesmanship which ended with the exit of Woodrow Wilson. I doubt the existence of any 'widespread misinterpretation of the meaning and mandate of the great Harding vote'. Every sign points to be existence of a general desire on the part of the American people for a League of Nations of some sort or another. Mr. Wilson has laid out a simple, direct and practical path towards the realization of permanent peace, and all we have...