Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous flights of Macready and Kelly indicated that the body of the airplane, its structure and flying controls are sound, its heart?the power plant?is weak and constantly giving trouble. Navy Department statistics indicate that the Liberty motor must be overhauled after approximately 72 hours of flight at a cost of 300 man-hours and over $600. The Navy has been giving the question of improved engine reliability the most concentrated attention, and, without great modifications in principle, by better detail design and more skillful use of materials has greatly raised engine endurance. Engines now are expected...
...preparation for today's contest, the Seconds had a practice game yesterday afternoon, in which the regular nine showed marked improvement in its fielding abilities, although its hitting was still weak. After practice, the team unanimously elected Kenneth Boyd Lucas '23 of Brooklyn, N. Y., captain for the rest of the season. He is a graduate of the Polytechnical Preparatory School in Brooklyn, and has played a reliable game in the field with the Seconds for three years...
American athletics have long been a point of attack for foreign and native critics. Disproportionate emphasis, professionalism, limitation of athletics to the few on a "varsity" team or crew, have been the weak points singled out for attack. Since the war, however, there has been at least in the East an encouraging tendency to recognize both the good and bad in American athletics and an attempt to remedy the defects. The "Presidents' Agreement" between Yale, Princeton and Harvard is one example; another is the report of the standing committee of the Board of Overseers on health and athletic sports, published...
...Yiddish Art Theatre in their theatre in the Bowery, and last spring here in Boston. The American production offered many interesting features, and differed greatly from either the Yiddish of the Moscow performances. Pauline Lord's Nastya was a fine achievement, the outstanding one of the performance. But the weak spot was the central character of the play, the Luka. In true American style he was made a sentimental figure, who fight have strayed in from a stained glass window. And the play was largely played in enveloping darkness. The Yiddish Art Theatre agreed with the Hopkins production in keeping...
...University Freshmen were notably weak in the field events, gaining only 21 1-3 points in those contests to 41 2-3 for their opponents: In the track events, however, the Crimson first year men made a better showing, capturing five out of eight first places, and making a clean sweep in both the half mile and the mile. The times were not on the whole very good, because the winners were hampered by the cold rain, and a wet, slow track...