Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theorized discussions of the ethics laboratory. Yet when one man has moral strength enough to play a game for what the game itself offers and no more, then college athletics by his single example maintain a higher, a better place in the development of youth; when another is weak, then he sets a feeble example to the next generation of football players and gives the outside world another chance to misjudge the colleges. Red Grange by choosing to become a successful machine, working or the pleasure of the horde, has killed whatever esteem he could have had among university...
...rolling voice and the gestures of a king; words, cadences, images, poured from him like an endless golden cable unwinding from his mouth; when he addressed a jury he could make the twelve spellbound dolts do whatever he told them, and he often used his genius for the weak, the defenseless, the depraved. After his Convention speech, he could have held political office; men in the Administration asked him politely would he like to be Minister to Germany ? Attorney General? Would he, sometime, care to run for President? Said he: "I do not believe in your...
...Stock Exchange remained the liveliest feature of business during the past week. Motor shares, "bulled" for weeks to unaccustomed heights, became at length top-heavy. Thus the "technical condition" of the stock market became very weak; news of the Boston Reserve Bank's rate advance was enough to topple the motor stocks over in a record day of 3,400,000 share sales. Because of this unprecedented volume, many ignorant people concluded that a panic had started. As a matter of fact, nothing of the sort developed. The smash in motors was simply a large-scale reaction...
...Harvard line today should be far stronger than at any time this season. It is often said that a team is as weak as its tackles, and Coady, back at his old position in the line, is an experienced tackle, one of the best Harvard has had for some time...
...Yale Freshmen also defeated Exeter by a 15 0 score. The Elis trounced Andover 17 to 0, and took Roxbury School and Culver Military Academy into camp by scores of 16 to 6 and 29 to 0. Last weak they lost to an exceptionally strong Princeton team...