Word: frail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Oyster Bay, Long Island, to Oslo, Norway, sailed the Lanai, a boat six metres (not quite 20 ft.) long, frail as an egg. It sailed in the hold of an ocean liner and when, in Oslo, Owner Herman Whiton saw its burlap wrappings undone and the racing sails taken out of their boxes, his boat was as dry as when it started. He had brought it over to win the Norwegian gold cup and this, after three days of racing and after having been disqualified in one race, it did, beating a yacht owned by Crown Prince Olaf
Twenty-four long hours, one long day; seven long days, one long week. The 23rd week of the strike in Passaic, N. J., opened with Albert Weisbord, of the Harvard Law School, bespectacled, frail dynamo of the textile workers, making preparations for an all summer battle: "We shall hold on like bulldogs, no matter what punishment they inflict upon us," he said...
...windmills which engage their Quixotic thrusts as completely as did the medieval world swing in its material and its spiritual axis about the university philosopher. But that such a change as has come about is permanent and not just the pendulum swing of reaction is a deduction hazardous and frail under the touch of reasoning...
...reach of Tibbetts of any other competitor in the forthcoming struggle on May 29. Frankly, such an opinion must be based on pure guesswork, for the weather must be just right, the track fast and the competition keen. An adverse wind would militate against a runner of Tibbetts' comparatively frail physique, but if conditions are ideal it is within the possibilities that the collegiate record will be lowered...
...desirability of the Gadfly. But its publication creates an issue, and in the case for the more radical side there are several interesting points which are open to question. The first of the two principal dries that are struck in the treatment is the impossibility of expecting such a frail and fallible institution as a committee of the faculty to apply a rule which in itself may be inoffensive. This, for example, worries Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard who fears that he University is going to lose its emprotorgued, awkward, loose-Haibed, ill-groomed" Abraham Lincolns...