Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 1914 through the end of 1917, Slattery was baseball coach at Tufts, rescuing the team from a bad slump in playing and causing it to be known as one of the strongest college teams in the country. He showed marked ability to develop batters and batteries of high rank, and his teams have been known to play baseball at all times...
...During the second half of the month both railroad and industrial stocks lost some of the gains they had made since Christmas, the slump in each group being about two points, but most of the loss has been regained during the past week. We regard recent movements in the security market as a normal minor fluctuation in a generally upward trend Further encouragement is to be drawn from the fact that this recovery took place in the face of a slight stiffening in call money rates...
...baseball men place in Coach Slattery is not only a tribute to his coaching; it will count for much in the-morale of the team this spring. From 1914 to the end of 1917 Coach Slattery was coach of the Tufts baseball nine, rescuing that team from a bad slump in playing and causing it to be known as one of the strongest teams in the country. From the spring of 1918 until the fall of 1919 when he signed a contract for one year with the University. Coach Slattery was general team coach and scout of the Boston Braves...
...which is coming to Boston on Friday, February 18th, promises to be representative of the development of the club which, since 1891, has presented plays written by undergraduates. The such has a long and interesting history, but it is only since the war that it has recovered in a slump in its standard of productions which took place prior to 1915. "They Never Come Back" has been very well received in many cities a which the club presented...
...standard was not maintained. The club easily fell into a slump. The inducement of a 2000-mile Christmas trip to the chief cities where loyal alumni trotted forth adulatory debutantes in honor of bum actors, but ball-room luminaries; and the influence of the typical Broadway musical comedy, completed the wreck. The personnel was chosen with an eye for pleasing these feminine sycophants. The performance was lightly considered; the real work of the evening began on the waxed floor after the final curtain had rung down. The play itself was pitifully colorless: an unmitigated burlesque from its slap-stick dialogue...