Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree by the senior council, the powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus, in 1924 the council was so unrepresentative and therefore weak that it was obliged to resign. Last week, a council, full of conviction and therefor strong, resigned by its own choice to force the whole issue of Princeton self-government...
Coach Edward Farrell has issued a call for inexperienced men for the Freshman track team. Any aspirant now will get individual attention from Coach Farrell and Jaako Mikkola. So far the squad has been weak in weight men and hurdlers, and Freshmen interested in either of these fields are specially urged to report now so that they can get a good start before the season officially opens...
...usual the University team is comparatively weak in the field events...
...President Coolidge wants to run again in 1928. The President could, of course, sign the bill, saying he disapproved of it and hoped it would be proven unconstitutional. He could keep it in his pocket, let it become law without his signature.* Both of these possible performances would reveal weak knees...
...When I come into a meeting sometimes I feel just like a sponge, dripping with honey and milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...