Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slump-Shouldered Self...
...trying to depict the races of mankind to the best of modern belief (TIME, Oct. 5), why do they depict the typical Nordic male as a bulge-muscled athlete. There is another statue in existence, taken from measurements of typical Americans, which shows the Nordic male in his slump-shouldered, pot-bellied self. The least the Museum could do is to put a rubber abdomen on their statue, to be inflated for anthropologists, deflated for art-lovers. HAROLD WOOSTER...
Last September Republican managers, alarmed at an August slump in his popularity, persuaded Nominee Landon to begin a "fighting campaign." Bit by bit his temper rose; his attacks grew stern, next vigorous, next angry. As the campaign entered its final week, they reached full fury. Not Frank Knox, not John Hamilton had ever shouted a blacker, more fearful prophecy of the doom in store for the U. S. if Alf Landon should fail of election than did Alf Landon himself when, at Baltimore this week, he cried...
...concerted effort to snap out of their mid-season slump, eleven Varsity soccer players stalk the Tiger on the Business school Field at 11:30 o'clock this morning, while the Jersey junglers hunt the hunter in an endeavor to avenge their 1935 4-0 taming by the Crimson...
...figures published in Saturday's Crimson show, the Business School has increased its enrollment during the past two years, and by a significant number each time. The business slump throughout the country, instead of causing a loss of confidence in the institution, has made the men of commerce realize that now more than ever professional training is necessary for an efficient handling of commercial affairs...