Word: whimpering
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...Hollywood and Detroit, art bowed to purity without a whimper...
...results of the Penn engagement ties up third place in the Eastern Intercollegiates three ways, between the Crimson, Navy, and the Pennsylvanians. Last weekend's two unfortunate post-Yale encounters ended the dual meet campaign for Ulen's aggregation with something of a whimper. However, with at least ten entries, Ulen now points for individual laurels in next week's Eastern Intercollegiate swimming get-together at New Haven...
...Yale stands started out with some vigorous pre-game cheers, but five minutes later they had subsided to a morbid despondency . . . . after the first quarter the cheering volumes gradually switched, with the sound of Brekekekek attaining attaining eventual superiority . . . the goalposts went swiftly and cleanly--not with a whimper but with a bang . . . Richard Corcoran '46 was dangerous with his heels as he hung from the north bars...
...Germany the war had ended, not with a bang but a whimper. It was a strangely quiet end to the final breath-taking week in which the German disaster had snowballed to an avalanche...
Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I.s' mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...