Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile accidents, bad oysters, or other causes; show tuberculous lesions on autopsy. Dr. Leon Charles Albert Calmette, assistant director of the Pasteur Institute, and Dr. G. Guerin, decided to reinforce this naturally acquired immunity. They reasoned that if each newborn child were inoculated with tubercle bacilli too weak to produce tuberculosis but strong enough to produce immunity, mortality would be immeasurably cut down. For many years they worked to weaken the little bugs and yet keep them alive. Of these they made a vaccine and inoculated cattle with great success (TIME, July 7, 1924). They made a vaccine for humans...
...graduate and Lutheran minister, to be called ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause for all their adolescent agonies, succumb readily to the "spiritual surgery" which follows this easy diagnosis...
...rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small
...their imposition. A change to a requirement of only one language to be met through a thorough written and oral examination or by a satisfactory grade in a course as advanced as French 6 or German 2, would give the brilliant student something to absorb his attention, and the weak student an intelligible goal worthy of his efforts...
...twin streams of unapplied realism, and unrelated, subjective aestheticism. Agreeing with these critics, Mr. Munson still seeks the seeds of renaissance in the attempts of the young writers he cites. In its broader aspect, this attempt is unconvincing. The youthful obfuscations, artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that the significance which Mr. Munson doughtily reads into them approaches an amusing incongruity. Nor are his admissions of faults an encouragement to the reader to seek out his writers, or to seek...