Word: slump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lack of finances following the Yale weekend and delays connected with veterans' checks were mentioned by Goldberg as possible reasons for the slump, but "students apathy" was also blamed. Citing the Salzburg Seminar and NSA as evidences of the Council's ever-increasing importance in the College, he called upon students to rally, in support of this only fund-raising drive of the year...
Contributions to the campaign, whose goal is $25,000, have gone into a momentary slump because of the Yale game, Charles H. Sammond, Jr. '48, chairman of the drive, declared last night. Student reserves will decrease with expected heavy weekend expenditures, Sammond said, but use of the coupons is expected to make up the lack...
Each Freshman practice session concludes with the backfield racing up and down the length of the practice field three or four times and the linemen pushing Lamar and an assistant around on the dummy blocking frame to avoid the natural practice "slump...
Medicine has no cure for middle age, but it has learned to ease the symptoms. The sick salesman was given treatments of testosterone (male hormone). After eight weeks of this simple therapy, he emerged from his emotional slump...
...French Communist Party is on the skids. Numerically, that is; because it becomes all the more dangerous as it tends to be reduced to its hard core. But political trends in France affect the peasants about six months after they have influenced urban areas. The Communist slump is only now beginning to touch the peasant vote...