Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three counters, came Clark Hodder '25, of last year's Crimson squad who tallied twice and E. L. Bigelow '21, present University Coach, with one goal. Learned, the Green goal-keep, turned in some phenomenal stops during the course of the evening but his outer defense was weak. For the second year the Crimson and Blue coaches were opposite each other on the face offs, when Bigelow replaced Hodder as Harvard center against Wanamaker, Dartmouth pivot and Eli hockey coach...
...Weak goaltending was partly responsible for the high score. In the first period the Freshmen had nine shots at the schoolboys' goal and five of them counted. In the same session, B. and N. tallied twice out of three shots...
...corn crop is forced on the market, lowering the price still further. The argument is that the bankers gave bad advice last year. Moreover, the argument goes on, Iowa has 1,625 banks ana 2,500,000 people?one bank to every 300 families?too many banks, hence weak banks, hence more trouble in a bad year...
Among the many college and university teams from the United States to tour Japan, only one, the University of Washington, has succeeded in winning a majority of games from the Waseda nine. The Japanese collegians have taken naturally to baseball and ordinarily produce brilliant fielding but weak hitting teams...
This play however differs sharply in one prominent particular. It is proved that the employer was really a good sort after all (a bit weak, to be sure), and the girl a nasty little schemer. All this comes out in the final courtroom scene where the girl is acquitted by the kindly male jury only to have her attorney (after the verdict was carefully won) turn on them and tell the truth...