Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studies, would fight his way with his fists to Parnassus. He practiced boxing and embarked upon a pugilistic career. But his throat was better than his knuckles. Instead of the pugilistic reputation that would have got him large pay, he encountered mostly hard punchings. His own blows were weak, his opponents' blows painful. He decided that the prize ring was no mine of gold...
...Japan, comparing them to the European companies which he has been investigating for the Japanese Government during the past year. "The Government transacts the industrial business, but the ordinary insurance is carried by private companies. In Europe and especially on the continent all the insurance businesses are very weak. In Germany and Austria there are really no such concerns. Nearly all of them went bankrupt a year ago and under the present financial and political conditions it would be very difficult to restore them...
Princeton faces Johns-Hopkins with a pair of dependable wings and three of its 1922 backfield. But although the Orange and Black shine most brilliantly at the ends and in the ball carrying department, it appears very weak on its line...
...years in dying-the pride of the house was brought down-yet Marian seemed to face Fate with a light, inflexible courage. She only broke down once, when Frank Ellinger threw her over and married-till Captain Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses...
...little more in England. In the U. S. there is only enough to treat 5% of cases which need it, and this is concentrated in large cities. A great deal of radium is being used for commercial purposes. Twelve million watch dials have been treated with a weak solution of radium and a sulphate at a cost of twelve cents apiece. In the mass this subtracts materially from the quantity available for medicinal purposes, and the new syndicate is trying to conserve the supply for medical...