Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigers have no one except Bradley; and if he has a bad night, or is contained to any degree by the opposition, the Tigers is dead. When Princeton played Yale earlier this season they won 74-60, but the Elis were in a slump then. Friday should be the Bulldogs' night, and Princeton--unless Bradley turns in a superhuman performance--will wind up in third place...
...state $246,000 in expected taxes. - In Louisville, Brown & Williamson (Viceroy) and P. Lorillard (Kent) went on four-day weeks, and Philip Morris trimmed to a three-day week. R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) has been on a four-day week for a month. Though cigarette sales usually slump just after Christmas, Reynolds admitted that the current drop in cigarette demand is "more than normal...
...past two years, Harvard has had slumps after exams though it has usualy managed to avoid losses. Coach Cooney Weiland admits the slump is worse this year, but feels it is the product of a rash of bad breaks. The two losses earlier last week, "games which could have gone either way," inevitably caused a let-down. Thus against Dartmouth, "it was just one of those things. We didn't have it right from the start," Weiland said...
What happened to them since? Curiously, all three went into a slump. Miss Hellman did an adaptation, tried writing the book for a musical, rallied somewhat with Toys in the Attic, and then, for the first time in her career, fell flat on her face with My Mother, My Father and Me last season...
...explanation for such statistics is clear, Doubts about one's field of concentration and one's worth as a student affect academic performance and contribute to the sophomore slump...