Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to A. L. Erlanger, William A. Brady, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., and other prominent theatrical managers, a severe financial slump has arrived in the business of shows that go on the road. Conditions in New England are said to be especially bad, due chiefly to the closing of many factories and a streak of over-production in plays...
Critics who saw the game between Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia last Saturday, reported that the state team, though scoring 28 points, was in a slump. Realizing that he will have to press his men in order to get them in condition to face Nebraska Saturday, Coach Bezdeck prescribed for them a day of tough scrimmage and a long signal drill yesterday. As a result of Saturday's game, only two men were seriously enough injured to be out of practice. Charlie Way, the plucky little halfback whom many consider a strong contender...
...labor and material in them, but philanthropy is not a business policy to satisfy the average investor and there is, as usual, an excellent reason. Motor car manufactures have considerable stocks of raw materials, and a careful study of the markets by their experts has foretold a slump in these markets. Shrewd business sense has therefore dictated the policy of unloading the present inventory of raw material quickly, and at a loss if need be, in order that a falling market may not catch the manufacturer with a very costly inventory and the prospect of having to make...
...until the Cornell game on May 24 that Yale recovered from her slump, when she defeated the Ithacans 9-3. Although the Eli batsmen made but one more hit than Cornell, the New Haven nine won by a score of 9 to 3, because the Cornell team did not come through in the pinches...
Yale recovered from her slump in the game with Holy Cross, whom she defeated by the overwhelming score of 10-3. Free hitting and many errors featured the game. But in the game with Tufts the Blue was again trampled in the dust, when the Medford nine whitewashed Yale...