Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubles, Debevoise also advanced to the final round with his partner, Dixon, defeating Bandler and Babbitt, 6-3, 6-1, in a listless match that called forth very little brilliant tennis. In the only other encounter of the afternoon, Cummings and Perkins easily defeated Collier and Pratt...
...throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded and conquered country. And they think that we mean by religion a daily dozen of don'ts. And they think we mean by salvation the collecting of a spiritual insurance...
...team that has shown an aptitude for winning slow, listless games with a final punch in the closing minutes, and for losing well-played games by scores too large to show its true strength, will be seen on Soldiers Field at 4 o'clock this afternoon when Bowdoin stages the third Maine invasion of the year. Bates was the first to attack the Crimson on the University diamond, losing 11 to 8. The University of Maine followed and lost on Saturday by a one-run margin. The most formidable of the trio is to appear this afternoon and, while...
...first two games roused high hopes for a triumph over Columbia, then leaders in the Intercollegiate League, but the Blue and White proved too strong and won by a six-point margin. Crippled by the absence of Captain Gordon, the Crimson defeated Williams unimpressively and dropped a listless contest to the Mass. Aggies, the visitors winning by a surprising rally in the second half...
...begins. Horace is discharged, for practicing his psychology on his department boss; Mr. Actopel has a nervous breakdown as the result; and Gordon is expelled from college for cheating in an examination. The disruption in the house supplies the necessary push to Ruth. Still languid and emotionally listless, she goes off to White Sulphur Springs with Raleigh...