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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This result reveals a weak spot in a judicial system which as a whole is it worthy of confidence and pride. We dare not rest until this vital fault is corrected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL FLAWS ARE EVIDENT IN TRIALS OF SACCO-VANZETTI | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...detest them especially when they are long. They are unprogressive, impracticable, unhealthy. They are masks for solemn humbugs, weak chins, degenerate and receding jaws. They are nests for bacteria. . . . Bah! I hate beards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Self-Revelation | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late for choir rehearsal, she locks him out of the house. When Benjie defends his conduct she rushes upon him with a fork, more murder in her maddened heart than in her weak hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...kiosks and torn up at least 300 copies of those magazines in which the feminine thigh is perennially displayed in frilly netherthings like the paper lace on a lamb chop. Heedless that he had taken coppers from the purses and bread from the mouths of kiosk women too weak to resist him, the strapping Abbé cried: "If I saw poison being offered to a child, I would seize it and destroy it. These periodicals empoison the soul created by God. They incite to ribaldry and lust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Summa Justitia* | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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