Word: letdowns
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...were revised from 75% of activity to 70%. New financing was postponed. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents, cagiest of all buying groups, saw fit to warn that buying should be "conservative" when there was so much uncertainty, even though there is "no real fear of a serious letdown" in fall business...
...genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more bitter than ever could have been the moral letdown following a period of real rather than imaginary distress...
...basketball team, which has been coming back into its own after a mid season letdown, has won its first victory over Yale, and this week they will stand by, playing only Brown, before facing Columbia and Yale in a final whirlwind finish, attempting to clinch the second place they have squeezed into...
...Coach Wes Fesler feared, the Crimson suffered a decided letdown, but the weakness of the Tech team enabled Harvard to coast along without ever being on the short end of the score. The chief feature of the play of both sides was the sloppy and careless passing which often messed up scoring bids. The Crimson hoopsters were particularly hindered by the small size of the Tech floor...
...questions about the intentions of Nazidom in Europe (TIME, May 18). Presently the handsome young Foreign Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April 15, 1935) was after he over-exerted himself meeting on one trip those two strenuous dictators Hitler & Stalin, men accustomed to work 16 hours-per-day as long as may be necessary, without cracking...