Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time is so admirably suited for amusements requiring a lack of thought as a work end provided one's conscience is not hard of hearing and has a weak voice. One may sleep a good part of the morning, and then having breakfasted, read a newspaper. In these two exercises no difficulty will be found. Then in the afternoon we have a football game, for which as a matter of fact a clouded and obtuse mind is often a distinct advantage, though it avoids embarrassment to remember the final score, and in the evening there are always the gilded palaces...
Acid Cell. The usual type of storage cell contains sheets of spongy lead separated from sheets of spongy lead peroxide in a weak solution of sulphuric acid. During discharge, the acid forms sulphate of lead on both plates; during charge, lead and lead perioxide are again formed on their respective plates...
...department of English, and a twinkle-eyed Democrat, wrote to the New York Times: ". . . But why put it in the negative ? The positive is shorter, clearer and better. 'May I not ?' is less handsome than 'May I ?' 'I do not think' is a weak substitute for 'I think-not.' 'I choose not to be a candidate in nineteen twenty-eight' is a sentence of good English. But it would not have a leg for the debate to run on; and this might diminish, if not eclipse, the gayety...
...Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden compression of the chest when the lungs are fully inflated checks the flow of blood, produces a sudden fall in blood pressure, followed by a rapid reaction high above the normal...
...crew coxswain is a wizened creature, pale and weak from worry and reducing. All he needs is a shrill voice and a pair of skinny hands to work the rudder. Yet it is he who gives commands to the eight hulking beasts ahead of him. St. Bonaventure College plays football with a coxswain instead of a quarterback. Francis Flynn badgered and generalled ten great brutes to a 57-0 victory over Alfred. Despairing of their clumsy, earnest efforts, he himself carried the ball 310 yards, once for 93 and touchdown. He is a quarterback, captain of the eleven, weighs...