Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Springfield has been defeated twice this year, in three starts, their most recent conqueror being Amherst, victim to the Crimson's fine defensive play on Saturday. Vermont and Middlebury have been the Springfielder's other opponents, the Green Mountain boys winning, 4 to 2, while Middlebury, with a weak team, was buried under a 7 to 1 tally...
...glass cases in a restaurant in Berlin were stretched two men, thin, weak, but happy. They, Otto Klein and Max Kramer, were enduring a fast. People around them ate beefsteak; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer sipped Vichy water. Patrons of the restaurant devoured schnitzel, wienerwurst; Herr Klein and Herr Kramer smoked cigarets. For 45 days this painful scene went on, greatly to the advantage of the restaurant. On the 45th day Herr Klein and Herr Kramer were lifted from their cages. They had beaten by a day the world's record fast of 44 days set by Herr Jolly...
With the first six games of the University baseball season completed, the statistics of the ball tossers provide interesting figures. The team's batting average is represented by 267, and belies the impression that the team is weak with the stick. The respectable size of the team's batting average is due, however, largely to the high average compiled by Burns, Sophomore centerfielder who at present is out of the game with a leg injury. Burns was clouting the ball at a heavy rate in the first two games of the season, but as he has only been...
...What Frenchman termed George Washington "a weak old man under British influence...
Died. Louis Franklin Genet, 82, grandson of Edmond Charles ("Citizen") Genet (first Minister sent to the U.S. by the French Republic), who described President Washington as "a weak old man under British influence"; at Leonia, N.J. Mr. Genet, able lumber dealer, retired 30 years...