Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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University Netmen Slump...
Harvard was in a distinct slump from the start of the game and never seemed able to get back into its previous victorious stride. An unfamiliar field which was much springier than the one to which the University twelve was accustomed affected the Crimson's team work, and despite the sterling playing of Reed at second defense and Kelsey at goal they were unsupported by the rest of their teammates and the ball was continually in Harvard territory. Kelsey entered the game with an injured leg and had to be carried from the field after playing the entire game...
With the Yale game looming less than a week off, the 1928 baseball team will attempt to make a comeback from its temporary slump this afternoon when it meets the Andover nine on the Freshman field at 2.30 o'clock. The schoolboy game today will be the last encounter for the Freshmen before their crucial test and will afford Coach Davidson a final opportunity to estimate the power of his outfit...
...aggravating loan of $48,000,000 can only be conjectured, But that they have hitherto proved reluctant to do so is a fair deduction from their waiting policy during a period when new security offerings have been readily subscribed, and when rising money rates have foreshadowed a temporary slump in prices for seasoned bond issues...
Over half of the country's steel output is absorbed by the railroads, the automobile companies and the construction industry. While no slump is anticipated in any of these directions, at the same time it is not expected by most people that buying from any of these three sources will prove as heavy this year as in 1923 or 1924. The railroads were in sufficiently good physical shape last year to handle record traffic with about 10% surplus capacity unused. Automobile output is not commonly expected to exceed this year the records of the two previous years. Finally, construction also...