Word: letdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sloan's prediction was apparently based on three items: 1) Ford production, which did not get into full swing until the early autumn of 1928, may reach a much higher total in 1929; 2) Chevrolet, now a six-cylinder car, plans a greater push rather than a letdown in 1929; 3) Chrysler looms as a potent rival of General Motors...
...Muscle Shoals (see Republicans). He extricated himself from the position on immigration into which he felt Nominee Hoover had tried to place him. He said: "In Tennessee, the Republican candidate said, 'I do not favor an increase immigration.' Why does he say that? . . . I do not favor any letdown [of alien restrictions] at all. ... It smacks a little too much of the old-time legal practice that they used to tell about, when the lawyer wanted to get the witness in bad by saying: 'When did you stop beating 'your wife...
...Louis Brom-field?Stokes ($2.50). This book were better left unpublished. Coming on the heels of three splendid predecessors, the last of which (Early Autumn, 1926) won a Pulitzer Prize and brought the author back from his European haunts in a triumph of press-agentry, it is a sorry letdown. Florid, artificial, repetitious, it is incredibly dull and sloppy work to come from an author of Mr. Bromfield's well-earned reputation...
...advisability of starting the season before vacation, and suffering the letdown necessitated by the Christmas vacation will be determined after tonight's game...
...practice. Warm weather has contributed its share, and the four-car scheme will provide an additional period of practice for the University squad till a few days before the Yale game. It is felt that in former years there has been too long an "off-season", with the inevitable letdown in physical condition. This season, with winter tank-work scheduled for after Christmas, there will be only a little over a month of complete rest...