Word: slumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only Slump Will Cause Defeat...
...game today need not be the cause of much worry to the Crimson first-year men unless they suffer a decided slump from the playing form they exhibited in last week's encounter. In that game they held the Worcester schoolboys completely at their mercy and conclusively demonstrated the superiority of the five-man defense over the zone defense system which was used by their opponents...
Dean Pound a preeminent position among academic administrators and for the Law School a prestige scarcely rivaled. The dean took hold of this department at a time when the earlier generation of juris-consults, including Langdell, Ames, and Thayer, had died, leaving the Law School in danger of a slump into mediocrity. He has raised it to new heights...
...sleep is Colby's most prevalent immorality. Students who ought to be firm-nerved, straight-thinking and clear-eyed go through their college course with a perpetual tired feeling, irritable, sluggish-eyed and languid-brained. They sit torpidly through classes and wonder why the professors are so boresome. They slump dismally into a chair and feed their minds on what takes the least mental effort. They wish that something would happen . . . A few men seem to be able to operate indefinitely on a very little sleep . . . But the chances are a hundred to one that you are not [able] . . . Nature...
...phenomena for the time being are of secondary interest and importance. Indications are for a very good retail trade, although in some quarters it is apparent that merchants have not stocked their shelves heavily. The Manhattan stock market, last week, encountered its first important reaction, so long expected. The slump in prices proved only temporary, however, particularly in the good rails, and failed to indicate any real halt to the rising market...