Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters here, but if there were any and if I said anything extemporaneously that was printed in the papers and that I didn't like, I'd deny* it. I'm an excellent speaker and my eyes are weak, so I hate to strain them by reading what I have to say." He has not yet denied this quotation...
...disagreeing with him on that count. The concensus of masculine opinion, which after all is the only worth while opinion in these matters and which was garnered during our progress from the theatre, was that she is extremely good to look upon, effective in the clinches, but a little weak on the tender scenes...
...weak my ear so, yes, you're right, you know what's got me, it's the band has got me. Why back in dear old Battleboro, where even the Baptists keep armored shells, there was no day quite like Memorial Day, so much so that all the villagers used to say. "Why it's al-most Memorial Day" and some of them even went so far as to say. "Why it's almost Memorial Day again." And then they'd get out their Fords, pack up a picnic lunch and leave town. But it never mattered how many left...
...surprising number of upsets were a feature of this year's tournament. The favorites at the start of the meet were Andover and Loomis. Loomis managed to come within a point of living up to expectations, but the Blue, netmen were wofully weak and finished in a tie for eighth place...
Less sanguine guardians of the faith, folk who regard Yale's official action as a weak-kneed surrender to rashly importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...