Word: sub-par
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...Within this vast single market, customs duties for coal & steel will be abolished. So will differential freight charges (i.e., cheaper rates for export over domestic markets). Inefficient mines and mills will be closed. This will apply particularly to Belgium, where a protective tariff has kept alive a number of sub-par enterprises. Within five years Belgian coal production will decline from 28 million to 23 million tons; owners of doomed mines will be compensated from an "equalization fund" contributed mainly by France and Germany; and the Belgian coal price, now 55% higher than the German, will fall to the single...
Fast Middlesex passing and hard checking, plus a sub-par performance by the Crimson midfield, combined to give the prep schoolers a 4 to 0 first period lead...
...less equal strength. In the first period the best two of these lines produced three goals. But for the rest of the game the plan didn't work: each line constantly revealed its understandable lack of co-ordination, and this, coupled with several severe defensive lapses and a sub-par game by goalie Johnny Chase, cost Harvard the game...
...Cadets have been sporadically dangerous this year, winning only one EIBL game in five starts. They often outhit their opponents but their fielding has been sub-par. Every once in a while, however, they will explode for a large number of runs. They beat Yale, 13 to 4, and scored nine against Dartmouth and 10, 13, and 11 in three other games. Coach Paul Amen's soldiers forced Cornell and the Brooklyn Dodgers into extra innings before dropping one-run decisions...
...halfway mark the two early leaders of the pack, little Dick Metz and big Chick Harbert, went haywire-they could not keep up their sub-par pace. Golfers who still had a chance to win drifted into the clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...