Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match was fought at Odihams in Hampshire on Jan. 9, 1788. After 25 minutes' contest, Mendoza by his superior skill is seen carrying off the honors of the day from his antagonist, when Johnson, after having revived Humphries by pouring cold water on his stomach, and finding him still weak and staggering, intervened...
...make the mistake of thinking that all the secrets of the world are to be stored in their minds in four brief years (a task that ages of men have not accomplished), and with this wild hope they neglect to search themselves, see wherein they are weak where a course in mathematics would conduce to accuracy, a course in philosophy to a power of detachment, a course on Shakespeare to an understanding of human nature--in short, where study would strengthen them to meet the facts of life as they will have to be met day after day until death...
...service units at the University, sponsored by the government, was run at a small loss, with the receipts $2172.56 and the outlay $2647.11. Baseball was the only form of athletics to show a profit, although the tennis courts, through rental, showed a fair sum to the good. Harvard's weak baseball nine played to $16,351.72, winning seven and losing 13 games. To outfit the team and keep it going an expenditure of $10,659.75 was made. The profits were about...
...players were particularly weak in offensive team play. Again and again a Crimson forward carried the puck down the ice only to find that he had no one to pass it to as he neared the Exeter goal...
...qualified to render when the test came. Not content with serving indirectly through those be had trained for military service both in the War College and Harvard, he felt impelled to add his own active services to their, in spite of long continued poor health and a weak heart...