Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many stories are circulating around Harvard about Benny's relations with the football team. In 1947, Benny saved the team from a disastrous season by bucking up its spirit before the Brown game in which the Crimson came out of a slump to win, 13 to 7. During the last 23 years Benny has missed only one varsity football game--the one at Stanford which Harvard lost...
This is why the newcomer to Cambridge may be surprised to find losing football teams, but championship squash and lacrosse squads; to see poor basketball but good swimming and track; to find. In fact, that hockey outdistances basketball as the popular winter sport. The notable exception to this spectator-slump sports-rise formula is, of course, the annually excellent Harvard crew, most popular and widely-followed of the spring teams--but this is simply explained. So far the New York bookmakers have shown no exceptional interest in who wins the Harvard-Yale crew race, and no school has been tempted...
Thus the market confounded both the bears and the financial soothsayers who had thought that the summer slump would give it a permanent downward push. Actually the market never got below June's low of 242.64, and has climbed 27 points since...
Everyone knew that some segments of U.S. industry had been in a summertime slump. Last week businessmen learned how deep the slump was. During the second quarter, the nation's production of goods & services hit a record annual rate of $325.6 billion (up 20% from a year before). But in July, the Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production dropped seven points, to 215, the first drop this year. Some of the drop was caused by vacations and floods. But much of it resulted from production cutbacks by makers of television sets, refrigerators, etc., who were waiting...
Though Cleveland's famed sluggers, Luke Easter, Flip Rosen and Larry Doby, were wallowing in a batting slump, and the team was hitting a dismal .265 (sixth place), Lopez was getting above-standard performances from Pitchers Mike Garcia (16-7), Bob Lemon (13-9) and Early Wynn (12-11), as well as from lefthanded Reliefer Lou Brissie (59 hits in 74 innings). But the man who was really cracking the whip in the Cleveland pennant drive was Righthander Bob Feller. The onetime boy wonder, who has never had a losing season since he came to the majors, was having...