Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
...everyone expected, eight long-trousered, pipe-smoking Britishers were too weak to walk off with the Walker Cup, which eight be-knickered, cigaret-smoking golfers retained for the U. S. last week at the Chicago Golf Club. Never in the seven years of Walker Cup history has a British team driven far enough, approached close enough, putted accurately enough to lift the trophy. As few expected, the Britishers lost all but one of the twelve matches. Dentist-Golfer T. A. Torrance, Scotch by birth, English in residence, was the only British winner. Onetime U. S. amateur-U. S. open champion...
...enough to make $3,000 which he speedily sank in his first production, The Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed it to Jed Harris. Next he wheedled enough more backing to put on Weak Sisters, which showed a small profit. After that he met George Abbott, co-author of Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, which he produced. Love 'Em and Leave 'Em was a smash...
Women were glad: Mrs. Nicholas Roerich, mother and wife of the men, had had the stamina to accompany them through five years of privation. Last week at Darjeeling she was still weak from starvation, long marches, high climbing, winters in thin tents. Two other women had endured with...
...been left behind some days previously (at his own request) to die. Tass stated that Captain Zappi was wearing, when rescued, Dr. Malmgren's fur boots and coat, and two other pairs of fur boots and two other coats-whereas Zappi's comrade, Captain Mariano, seemed sick, weak, and wore no fur boots...