Word: torpor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That an insufficient number of teams have enrolled to make the Leiter Cup Series practical intimates that baseball enthusiasts are pre-occupied with new interests, or are still in their winter torpor. Considering the immediate success of the new coaching staff, a baseball system similar to the football system may evolve this year. Under this stimulus aspirants for a hand in future puddings might be expected to practice on the Leiter cups. As efficiency is a desirable asset rather than a requirement, of the scrub teams, the restraint of training never forbids a "Leiter cupper" to enter where joy invites...
They have shown that, given a live subject, that hits him, the undergraduate will shake off the torpor of indifference that too often marks his attitude toward current affairs, and will take up the cudgels with vehemence...