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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University lacrosse twelve in a one sided game easily ran up a big score against a weak Brown team. The final score stood at 11-0 and even this large margin hardly represents the difference between the two teams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN LACROSSE TEAM FALLS BEFORE CRIMSON | 5/5/1927 | See Source »

...Lady of the Camelias was snatched from her period of languishing romance, as originated by Novelist Alexandre Dumas, and flung into the milieu of. flapper costumes, clever subtitles and busy bigness that marks the careers of modern cinema shop girls. But not even by that stratagem did the weak, hackneyed scenario, though it followed artlessly enough the familiar story of the girl who finds her true love but renounces him when she develops lung trouble, gain reality to compensate for dramatic deficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago Tribune, which had fought against Mr. Thompson, sold 909,448 copies (its high water mark for the daily edition) and soon boasted, the fact with figures five inches high, meanwhile trimming its political sails with a weak-kneed editorial hoping that Mr. Thompson would turn over a new leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Chicago | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...their pockets this coming twelvemonth to pay the piper because 6,000,000 workers struck during the general strike and 750,000 miners remained out until the last bitter weeks of the coal strike? To answer these unpopular questions, Chancellor Churchill sat down four square on his facts last weak, presenting his budget to the Commons as the one logical answer to a problem stated by Fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strike Budget | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...current. These wires carry the current to 2,500 tiny squares of tin foil mounted behind the television screen in neon gas. As the current reaches each bit of tin foil it leaps through the neon, which is instantly illuminated. The flashes thus made, strong or weak, according to the amount of current received, build up the picture on the screen. They arrive at the rate of 45,000 a second. Each must occur at the proper time, in the proper place and with the proper intensity, or the entire picture will be "scrambled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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