Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-limited, long-sinewed crew men row during the fall and winter to develop form and stamina for the gruelling spring schedule. When ice-breaking becomes too hazardous for the frail prows of the Crimson shells, Coaches Harvey Love and Bert Haines bring their charges indoors in Newell to practice in the tank...
Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
...pretending to educate these people for self-government?" he asks; answers, "They governed themselves before we went there." From the native's point of view he sums up the European achievements as roads he "does not care twopence about," schools which produce "a very disgruntled specimen," missions so frail "that, ten years after the departure of the last missionary, there would be no Christianity left," hospitals whose staffs need "all their time to counteract the tendency of the population to decrease under the white man's rule...
...England, pale & frail after seven months in prison (to which Nazis sent him on a charge of sex perversion), Tennist Baron Gottfried von Cramm said that the U. S. had denied him a visa to compete at Forest Hills. Reason: U. S. law bans people convicted of a crime involving "moral turpitude...
...recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students with a broad, unclassical education. Today...