Word: setbacks
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Weakened by the loss of regulars Jim Foley and Sid Correll, the Crimson's chances didn't appear too bright; and when Captain Mark Tuttle, ace of the Crimson squad, lost his right shoe-spikes at the one mile mark, the team received a serious setback. Instead of dropping out of the race, though, Tuttle kept on going minus one shoe for the remaining three miles to finish fourth...
This victory, which toppled Tech from the undefeated ranks, was the Crimson's fourth as against one setback. Sweeping all three of the doubles contests, the Crimson dissolved a 3-all tie in the singles to sew up the match...
...biggest human setback has been loss of pyrethrum, far & away the deadliest prewar insecticide, of which almost the entire supply came from Japan. The substitutes on which bug fighters now chiefly rely are the new Lethanes (not so deadly) and sodium fluoride (dangerous because poisonous to man). One of the most effective exterminators is ultra-deadly hydrocyanic gas, but against it there is a city ordinance...
...cause of good radio music got a terrific setback Sunday evening as a roll of blaring radios was taken by the B.D.O. The line was long with Crime Doctors fans. Charlie Ritzer was the only person who really had the dame figured out before the good doctor exposed her and the jewels...
Significance: in Wisconsin, whose defeat of Wendell Willkie was hopefully interpreted by some internationalists as no setback for internationalism, shrewd Bob La Follette still chooses to rest his party's election-year chances on a strongly nationalist foreign policy...