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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Justice. He was the active mind of Lincoln's Cabinet. Born in Cornish, N. H., he graduated from Dartmouth, and early entered the anti-slavery fight. Grave and massive, his New England conscience was as strong as his sense of humor was weak. He was the financial genius of the Civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: The Text: Chase. | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...University baseball team will face the aggressive Providence College nine this afternoon at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. The presence of Owen in the box will greatly add to the Crimson's batting power, in that the batting order will not taper off at the end to weak hitters. Norris will start at first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPROVED CRIMSON NINE FACES PROVIDIENCE TODAY | 6/6/1923 | See Source »

...with a clean two-base hit and was advanced to third when Buell hit safely. The next two men were disposed of in short order and then Owen put the finishing touch on the game by smashing, out a terrific drive that netted an easy home run. Hammond's weak liner to short stop retired the side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ERRORLESS PLAYING DEFEATS BEAR 5-0 | 5/31/1923 | See Source »

...William Z. Ripley of Harvard for the Commission, but the general idea which it embodied. He characterized the proposal as " threatening and strange," " amounting to duress," " violently disturbing," impairing to " public welfare," " a pure abstraction of mathematics," " an insidious blow at the railway industry." As for combining strong and weak roads, he declared: " A mixture of good eggs and bad eggs always produces a bad omelette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILWAYS: A Bevy of Presidents | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...visitors began with a rush. Buck, the first batter on the Purple batting-order, reached first when Hammond failed to handle a weak liner over second quickly enough. After stealing second, however, the runner waited while O'Brien and Richmond were retired, the former flying out to Gordon, the latter to Larrabee. A minute later, Fisher knocked a slow grounder to Buell, beating out the throw and bringing in the first Williams run. A play from Hammond to Owen brought the inning to a close immediately afterwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILLIAMS TRIUMPHS BY ONE RUN MARGIN | 5/23/1923 | See Source »

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