Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouthful of Sloan's Liniment. The rest of the piece is pretty weak. It is billed as "a comedy with music" which is exactly what it is. The comedy is good; the rest is mediocre. The music is fair, the sets likewise, and the rest of the cast passable. The chorus, while executing a few good dances, is such as would most probably offend even the taste in pulchritude of the fastidious patrons of the Howard Athenaeum...
...sided, loosely played game, the University baseball team overwhelmed a weak Bowdoin nine by a 21 to 3 count on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The Harvard diamond forces pounded three opposing hurlers for 14 hits, three of which were home runs...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, bushy-haired, fearless Baptist clergyman, last week addressed the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, in Augusta, Ga., and harangued financial bigwigs thus: "Great disasters of history have not been caused by the weak. They have been caused by the misuse of power on the part of the strong. Page Pharaoh, page Nebuchadnezzar,* and Sennacherib,† page Nero and Napoleon! Or consider our own country today...
During the year, the print department received a notable addition in the form of a fifteenth-century Venetian woodblock, a gift of Elmer Adler '22. A large number of prints were donated to the Museum's collection, strengthening weak spots in the assortment...
...weak and watery matter...