Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that decadent court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew...
...source was quickly shut off. The fever may be borne by water or milk; but in the large cities the water supplies seem to have been well guarded, the milk supplies too for the most part. Attributing the occasional welling up of typhoid fever to weather conditions seems a weak although favorite argument. On this point study over long periods is necessary. In fact, epidemiologists know they face an intricate problem...
...easy task in this age and particularly when he has written so many in the same vein. Not even the most vigorous literary adventurer can endure too many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen...
...large percentage of veteran players a number of outstanding men from last fall's Freshman team appeared upon the field yesterday. Practice, which will last until the end of May, is in order to attempt to develop material for the back positions, where the team is woefully weak in experienced material...
...totter and to be feebly protesting his innocence with his hand over his heart. Then he shrieked, clutched his left breast and fell in a swoon. He was carried from the Chamber amid genuine pandemonium. He recovered consciousness 20 minutes later, only to faint again. Physicians declared that his weak heart had suffered a shock from which he can scarcely recover for some weeks...