Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stock industry, but to make them on a sound business basis and upon adequate security. . . We must take no action that will make it possible to transfer losses from private interests to the public this year. The object should be reconstruction, not charity, whether it is charity for the weak or for the strong...
...Pilgrim of Infirmity will do," he said. And in truth he looked weak...
...planks can be of real value only if serving as part of a structure, or of at least a scaffolding. Some such scaffolding as an aid to intellectual architecture the CRIMSON hopes to construct in the course of the next few weeks. Of necessity of a skeleton nature and weak in many points, it may offer one or two steps for future builders or at least something which it will be profitable to fear down...
Liberals at once picked the weak spot in the Bishop's ecclesiastical utterance. "Permitting all lawful liberty of interpretation," said the Bishop. "But what is lawful liberty?" the Liberals asked. And were not answered...
Recent experience has left the proponents of mutual guarantee systems a little less sure of their theories. For the effect of thus guaranteeing a bank against the results of failure was to lead directly to the creation of weak banks run by inexperienced men, and to the acceptance by banks of business ordinarily refused as unsafe. Oklahoma, which gave birth to this plan, has had the bitterest experience with it. It has been found that in periods of pressure, more failures result and greater losses to depositors, than would otherwise occur. Since this guarantee plan has never been introduced into...