Word: setbacks
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...OVERCOMING TRADE SETBACK...
...decade to be the crucial factor, and has served as Harvard's special nemesis. Yale's home court is comparatively large for the East, and it often takes a visiting team several minutes to become accustomed to it. The Blue's defeat earlier this week was Yale's first setback of the season on its own floor...
Canada to Recess. Looking out at the Dominions, The Commercial sees A SHADOW OVER CANADA: Two Crop Failures In Succession, adds: "It is now evident that the trade of the Dominion has received a severe setback [crop failure . . . falling off in production . . . decline in earnings of industry . . . collapse of the stock market], and in place of the lulls which have occurred from time to time in the past six years there will be a definite recession...
...better qualified to debate on education and athletics, their contribution to the mass of material on government and industry will prove at least novel. At any rate, the ancient adage that the younger generation should confine its personality to the desert air is going to receive another setback...
...Elis laced the University Club skaters 1 to 0 and 3 to 1, whereas the Cantabridgians eked out 4 to 3 and 2 to 1 wins. The Hanover Indians have twice bitten the dust before the marauding Blue, but there were extenuating circumstances in the case of their frightful setback not so long ago. Ice just wouldn't freeze in Hanover in those days. Since then such matters have been remedied, the Green squad has been strengthened and Harvard will have a real job on its hands to carry away the scalps. And it might also be well to notice...