Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, Egyptians are not Britons. They are a weak people, for centuries the vassals of conquerors. If Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal, the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
...American League clubs, lined up smoothly behind the Yankees: at Philadelphia a galaxy of famed veterans; a young St. Louis team, fighting, surprising; Washington with many stars that might develop; Cleveland slumping after a burst in the early season; Boston trying hard, well-bossed by Carrigan, but raw; Chicago weak all round; Detroit expensive, theoretically strong, but actually little better than Chicago. They considered personalities: Ed Morris, Boston pitcher, called the best youngster in either league; Chalmers Cissel, swaggering Chicago shortstop who, drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more...
Most people regard most paintings with total apathy if they regard them at all. Most painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at paintings than to read books is a question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change...
...present there are only 69 such schools. All professions have increased their requirements and the schools which could not meet the demand either had to consolidate with a stronger institution or else "pass out of the picture." During these years optometry has been building-true, a few of our "weak sister" schools have closed their doors, but during this same time we have established courses in Optometry at Columbia University (New York City), University of Rochester (Rochester, N. Y.), Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) and have many other institutions which confine their curricula to optometry...
Scientist Brush, concerned about the future, knows that science plays no favorites, preserves some of the weak, unfit, feeble-minded as well as the strong. "General reading and common sense," he says, have made him want to educate people to the evils of too great population increase. His trust fund will be used for research in eugenics, popular enlightenment, regulation of overpopulation. The program of the foundation has not yet taken definite form. Birth control clinics may be the first step...