Slump in Grey' could only mean, under the circumstances, that Grey's supervision was avoided; that the work was carried out in spite of him.
I have watched day after day the notice you have inserted in the Free Press--'Yellow booming--slump in Grey.
We are not willing to slump down on any general slovenly assumption about the world that goodness cannot be made to work in it.
If there is one thing rather than another that those of us who know Lim all rely on and like, it is that nothing can ever make him slump down into looking good.
I am not going to slump into being a beautiful character.
So long as he really helps stave off John Bottomley Bull and Mrs. John Bottomley Bull, let him slump into being a millionaire, if he cannot very well help it!
He is met with the doleful news that while his stock was on the way to Chicago, or elsewhere, the stock in "Holy Moses" had experienced such a decided slump that it was impossible for them to sell it at a profit.
The drop in "Holy Moses" is not due to any slump in the production of the mine; far from it.
He had bought it cheap and sold it dear, anticipating a slump in Bell, which was not slow in coming.
His pictures are valuable now he is dead, but there was a slump in them before he died, or rather, there never was a boom in them.
The encouraging thing is that the true artist who once finds what an impulse is given his work by rigorous training, is never content to slump back to his former vegetative, death-in-life existence.
If we'd let the slump come and then bought we should have made a pile; but then we might have had difficulty in getting the stock up to anywhere near par again for some time.
If the big slump had come there'd have been a heap of money lost.
Dimly Bart saw old Rugel slump forward, moaning softly; saw the old Lhari pillow his bald head on his veined arms.
Bart, gasping under it, heard the girl moan, saw her slump lax in her chair, half fainting.
Buffeted by the slump in world oil prices and burdened with a heavy foreign debt, Algiers concluded a one-year standby arrangement with the IMF in April 1994.
Denmark is weathering the current worldwide slump better than many West European countries.
Then the thing willslump and we shall all be ready for the next fad.
If it is, it may be that the slump in the piano trade has caused Mr. Woolley to turn from musical instruments to cancer cures.
Heavy sole leather, which did not recede nearly as much as lighter grades in the slump of last winter, are now nearly back to the high point of early last fall.
But surely, Mr. Ryder, this slumpis merely temporary.
You noticed that the last big slump began with the worst scarcity of money the Street has known for years.
You mean that you think this slump may be the result of manipulation?
There had been a violent slump in stocks, and matters seemed to be going from bad to worse.
Martin was observed to slump slightly--perhaps with hopelessness.
Of course it would not do to have any slump below par until after the receipts are issued and the whole amount of the subscriptions paid up.
Let us, for example, see how a stock slump in New York affects the owner of a small life-insurance policy in Wyoming.
Then there came the awfulslump which slid the stock down to 33.
He was sitting upright in the car and you heard the shot and you saw the President slump over?
In 1996 manufactured goods exports expanded less rapidly than in previous years because of the global slump in electronics; nonetheless, foreign investors continue to commit large sums in the economy.
Spring poets are suffering from suspended animation; there is a slump in crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils and lambkins.
When the man-slump makes her fretty Susie takes to D.
And the phrase about the "position of trust and responsibility" touched Charles to the quick, I suppose, in re the Slump in Cloetedorp Golcondas.
And so, too, with the incident of the Slump in Golcondas.
Oh, worse than that," replied Dray, getting one more spoonful of slump on the sly.
I believe he said there had been a 'slump in the market,' whatever that means.
It looked as if Slump had set a price for his silence and secrecy regarding the magnate's schemes.
Since the escape of Ike Slump and Mort Bemis and the new disappearance of Van Sherwin, not a clew as to the course or whereabouts of the missing trio had reached either Ralph or his friends.
He had hired Mort Bemis and Ike Slump to kidnap her.
I think he had been taking some food and such fixings to Ike Slump & Co.
Slump kicked his feet free of the entangling horse-blankets, and darted away towards the railroad tracks.
Yes, Van said he felt sure that Slump and Bemis had the documents stolen from Mrs. Davis.
I suppose Slump didn't care to show his face at all.
It was queer, but I was nosing around the jail for some point on those fellows Slump and Bemis.
Ralph doubted not but that Slump and Bemis had projected and were carrying out a daring robbery.
It was two days after the arrest of Ike Slump and Mort Bemis.
He dared not stop, for Slump was probably armed, and his confederates might come in pursuit.
Besides, he simply wants to get where he can watch and overhear Slump & Co.
They don't understand old Farrington's peculiar interest in the matter, and we have been ready to rearrestSlump for a week.
All things went well with him, whether they were blows from the overseer in the cane field or a slump in the price of sugar when he owned those cane fields himself.
Toward the last he did precipitate a slump and sold at sacrifice.
He sold out his interests in a score of enterprises, and step by step, so as not to cause a slump in the market, he disposed of his large holdings in real estate.
Sometimes an umpire who has been good will go into a long slump when he cannot call things right and knows it.
McGraw asked for waivers on the load of empty barrels soon afterwards, but his scheme had stopped a batting slump and put the club's hitters on their feet again.
Then he started to jump around and we got the next two batters out right quick, there being a big slump in the Philadelphia hitting as soon as he took his foot out of that puddle.
The right-fielder hit well up to the world's series and then he just struck a slump that any player is liable to encounter.
But the batting averages of the Philadelphia players took an awful slump after that.
McGraw once broke up a batting slump of the Giants with a load of empty barrels.
Many of them bought back shares when prices fell, and bargain after bargain was picked up during the Slump by people who knew which companies possessed the best plantations.
Prices which had risen so rapidly went down with a slump even more rapidly.
You're responsible for the slump in provisions, Menzies, and you must see us through this.
Never in the history of the house, or, at any rate, in the comparatively recent history of the house, had there been such a slump in athletic trophies.
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