Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later the Liberal Party's platform was issued, signed by Mr. Asquith and Mr. George. This manifesto was predominately denunciatory. It damned the French occupation of the Ruhr, the Baldwin Government for its weak handling of the Ruhr, the U. S. cooperation offer, the "Shameless Treaty of Lausanne "- in fact the " moral indecision" and " diplomatic incompetence" displayed by the Government in every question of foreign policy...
Last week Poland was engulfed in a general strike, with which a weak government was trying to grapple. Troops were sent against the strikers; the strikers surrounded and disarmed them; the city of Cracow, the storm center of the strike, was in darkness; troops were confined to barracks; police dared not appear on the streets; theatres, cinemas, schools were closed; armed patrols of workers tried to keep order among their more radical brethren. No news of strike negotiation was given; the situation was pregnant with unutterable gloom and vagueness...
...What are the weak spots in our public school system...
Showing itself the greatest offensive team developed at New Haven in years. Yale swept through and around Princeton last Saturday for a 27 to 0 victory. Gone was the defensive weakness of the Maryland encounter, gone the inability to stop an overhead attack such a Buckle had used so effectively. In fact in no department of play was Yale weak. All of her previous points of ineffectiveness seemed to have been eliminated. True, the Tigers were not in excellent physical trim; yet had they been it is doubtful if the Blue attack could have been stopped...
...giant Crimson line was badly outplayed, and what was more, outfought. Harvard even, lost the ball on downs when a yard advance would probably have meant the winning touchdown. The game showed that although Fisher's eleven had potential power, it was at that time woefully weak in actual playing ability...