Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...especia'ly expatriated Chinese merchants also contribute largely to the insurgent funds. For some years there have been more or less serious revolts in the Dutch Indies almost every six months, but they have been firmly put down and the insurgent movement is still loose, incohesive and therefore weak. The half million non-Moslems in the Dutch East Indies are in no present danger of expulsion by the 50 million subject-natives
...true that a drunkard's son will drink badly (that acquired characteristics are inheritable) ? Not demonstrably. Why is it that more male babies die than females? Because: 1) their inheritance contains more recessive (weak) characteristics; 2) semi-lethal characteristics are of the recessive type. Is death a necessary consequence of life? Immortality has been achieved for certain flatworms, is observable in certain trees. Is sex predeterminate? Not yet, but soon perhaps; meantime, no man is not latently female, and functional sex reversal has actually been wrought upon frogs, chickens, owls...
...Ward showed themselves the best players or the 1930 team, each of them tossing four baskets Ward excelled particularly on shots from the side, but the whole team was weak on shots under the basket...
...through the crowd without turning to the right or left. Exsergeant Harida baba Fassaltoui must have been very nearly six feet, six inches fall, with tremendously powerful shoulders and arms, which, contrasted with his thin and week-looking legs, made him look top-heavy. Most Arabs seem to have weak legs and very small feet, probably because of the fact that their ancestors invariably rode if they had distance to travel, even if it would be only a short walk for a European. When Hamids, or "Ham and," as I later called him, was too young to object very strenuously...