Word: unspectacularly
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...reports indicate that Army will be a good team to prepare for, because if the cadets produce their customary brand of squash, their play will be unimaginative but dogged, unspectacular but effective. Conditioning will therefore be a key factor in the games...
...varsity continued to grind out unspectacular wins against Brown until 1913, when another touchdown jamboree produced a 37-0 Crimson triumph. Fullback Charlie Brickley led the scoring with a touchdown and a field goal. He was the top point-maker on an undefeated team that tallied 225 markers in nine encounters while allowing only...
...occurrence that will greatly aid the varsity's offense is the return of inside John Hedreen. In his unspectacular style, Hedreen is perhaps the key man in the Crimson line...
Many J.P.L. experiments seem unspectacular. One lab is studying the behavior of solid fuels that will burn at the low pressure that rockets encounter at the outer fringes of the atmosphere. A huddle of men in blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a concrete wall. Reflected in the mirror is a 2-ft. object like an outsized bug bomb. For a few noisy seconds, a blue flame spurts out of the bomb, then turns to a wavering trail of smoke. "It chuffed," says one of the men glumly. "That...
...wages (up 85% since 1950) have been much sharper than in other manufacturing, and that steel wages ($3.10 an hour) are far above the manufacturing average ($2.23). Furthermore, steel's productivity from 1947 to 1957 rose only 3% a year, v. 3.1% for all manufacturing. That was an unspectacular performance, both by steel workers whose wages have been rising by an average 6.4% a year, and by steel management, which claims that it is spending so much to boost its efficiency ($1 billion a year) that it cannot afford a modest wage hike or price...