Word: listlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then proceeded to crack the Dorm tackle for the second Deacon touchdown. The try for point failed. Although the injured Kirkland star, Al Matthis, was exberting them from the sidelines, the Dorm players nearly scored on the Deacons in the second half, when they roused themselves from their listless state and fought their way to the 20-yard stripe. Hero they were bogged down, and Kirkland maintained their un-scored on record...
...Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...
Harvard's playing was by no means listless, and, sparked by Joe Romano, who scored seven points, the team fought well throughout. The quintet's main weakness was its failure to recover shots from the backboards, but in this it was handicapped by the superior height of the Lion team...
Apparently one of the factors for this late "blooming" of the Crimson potentialities is due to that intangible something called team morale. Working together, Captain Pren Willetts and Hodder have been trying all season to whip a little esprit de corps into an unusually listless squad, and at last the team the team is snapping out of the Slough of Despond which has handicapped it all year...
...salary ($10,000 a year) was paid to Mme. Houde while he earned in addition 20? daily for work in the camp. Even under this cloud, last week Camillien Houde saw his political henchman Leon Trepanier win 15,591 votes, just 974 votes short of victory in a listless election...