Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scores resulted from Desibow's triple in the second game with two men on the bases. Hartnett, pitching for Yale, allowed 15 hits in the first game, while Pond and Ross held Georgia in the second game to seven hits, four of which were for extra bases. Besides being weak at the bat, the Elis made eight errors during the afternoon, including two muffed fly balls in the outfield...
...that the roads are back in private hands, the old malady has begun to develop again. The country is too big to support two hundred roads on a profit-making basis. Therefore, we have the cry for mergers. Let the strong roads absorb the weak; guard against the old game of stockjobbing, secret rebates, " milking" and " watering," but give the people the benefit of a trust without its monopoly privileges...
...rail earnings for January show an increase in profits from 2.75 per cent in 1922 to 5.54 per cent for January of this year, which argues that the roads are on the way to recovery and should be let alone. The conflict of interests involving the big roads, the weak roads, the Government, the public, and railroad labor is still so stubborn and at the same time so obscured by propaganda and counter-propaganda that only the future can decide the outcome of the issue. Security holders, who have the most to lose by Government operation, are anxiously watching...
...Freshman team as far as can be judged at present promises to be a hard-hitting combination with a weak pitching staff. As among a group of none too promising candidates for the mound position O. S. Carter, a former Exeter man, appears to be the first choice with R. W. Puffer of Noble and Greenough as second best. M. A. Cheek, also an Exeter graduate, is at present the logical choice for first-string catcher. There is quantity of good material for first base and as yet no choice can be made. J. E. Knowlton from Middlesex will probably...
Mary MacSwiney, widow of the Mayor of Cork: "Since her arrest by Free State soldiers on Feb. 13, Annie MacSwiney has been on a hunger strike and is getting very weak. So I cabled my brother-in-law in New York: 'Notify friends in United States to protest...