Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicaragua? ". . . We can make no advance . . . until human affairs are brought within the orderly rule of law. The surest refuge of the weak and the oppressed is in the law. It is pre-eminently the shield of small nations...
...which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause, designed to create a revolving fund to help weak companies, has become notably unpopular among railroaders...
Less popular still was the attitude taken by the Interstate Commerce Commission toward a famed railroad which, in 1925, became so weak that it crashed with one of the loudest crashes in U. S. railroad history, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Last week, the Interstate Commerce Commission finally decided the St. Paul case. But the Commissioners greatly grudged their decision and protested, even in their majority report, that they had decided against their will...
...Comparatively weak in the distances but unmistakably superior in the hurdling events", was the terse opinion of America's chances in these departments of the track contests at the Olympic games this summer, expressed to the CRIMSON yesterday by E. L. Farrell, University track mentor and a member of the coaching staff of the American Olympic team...
...will not abandon my resistance until the . . . pirate invaders . . . assassins of weak peoples . . " are expelled from my country. ... I will make them realize that their crimes will cost them dear. . . . There will be bloody combat...