Word: unspectacularly
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...proceeded to flaunt their wares to the grief of the timber wielders of both lineups. Neither before nor after the fatal third was either team able to put together two hits. During the remaining six frames Berg, displaying his customary good control, set the Brown men down with three unspectacular hits. But his teammates, over-anxious and inclined to fish for bad balls, could do nothing with Nichols' crafty spot-pitching...
Later on, he became a lieutenant colonel. He never went higher. He was a dutiful, unspectacular soldier. Whenever he could manage it, he slipped away to work on the "mushroom smoothness" of the silver in whose fashioning he was, in his unpretentious way, a great artist...
...first jobs was to clean up skinny, bullet-pocked Legs Diamond's gang. His record since has been both unspectacular and unmarred by scandal. As a public official he is colorless, likable, efficient. He has earned the loyalties of friends; smart and ambitious (for six years he has yearned to be Governor), he has visited every city and hamlet in the State during his five campaigns, probably knows more voters than anyone but his gregarious mentor, Jim Farley himself...
Died. Howard Harding Jones, 55, quiet-mannered, unspectacular coach of the West's most spectacular football team, the Trojans of U.S.C.; at North Hollywood, Calif. Brother of Yale's once famed T. A. D. Jones, he went to work on the Trojans in 1925, transformed them from something second-rate into "the West's best." Their record under his coaching: 121 games won, 36 lost, 13 tied...
...good-hearted in the same unspectacular, but definite way. A number of years ago, a boy at Eliot House was in danger of being thrown out of college because his scholarship was taken away. "Karp" rounded up the money to keep him going. Another time, when "Karp" was giving a night school course in Russian history, he got a badly mangled final exam paper from one of his quainter pupils: a white-haired old school marm. She sent him a post card, admitting that she hadn't done very well, but saying she didn't know why. What could...