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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pepys and his associates exhumed and exhibited on the stage. It has had a long run and must be better than we thought it was. It has its good points and its weak ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More New York Theatrical Offerings--"Volpone" Bodes Well--There Is Plenty of Interference at the Lyceum | 4/7/1928 | See Source »

...were directed, they cannot fail to decrease his interest in teaching and in the course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best toward fortifying any tendency which might delay his progress in learning to teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With All Due Applause | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

President Holt's basis of reasoning is sound; but his method of applying it is weak. This sort of training belongs in secondary schools; when it is employed in college, its arbitrary nature is opposed to the very independence and completeness of education at which it aims...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGIATE TIME CLOCK | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...sounded the irrepressible retort of small Austria. The conservative Neues Wiener Tageblatt rapped: "The arguments of Il Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Clear & Clever | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...triumph of Cousin Tomlin's demise, her husband implored the doctor to let it die. For baby Rex had a little horn above his left ear. But Rex was not allowed to die. He was cherished and guided from squalling infancy to wobbly-kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: One Man's Meat | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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