Word: weak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weak point of the team is without doubt the wing positions. The five ends who were used in 1924 all graduated last June, and men are being shifted from other positions to meet this difficulty. Moeser, fullback of the 1928 combination and Jeffers, a Senior, are at present Roper's choices. Bartell, who won his letter at center last fall, and Lea, from the Freshman eleven, are giving them a hard fight...
...stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from them. It might have been concluded that the ship was wrecked entirely because of the ferocity of the storm, that some of her girders were weak, that some of her safety valves were not working and that one or more of her gas cells burst, or that the temporary failure of two of her engines caused her destruction...
...season by a onesided score. Oberlander, big and speedy halfback, was the Hanoverian star. Forward passes played a big part in the Dartmouth attack, two being completed for scores. In the second half, with many substitutes playing, only one touchdown was made. The Dartmouth defence against forward passes was weak, and Hobart twice threatened by making long gains over the aerial route...
...modern college student's legs are weak and his head is softening, says the President of Union College. Neglecting all the sensible criticisms he might have made of the present generation of college men men, he chose these absurdities with which to open the year. Automobiles, he says, are responsible for the legs, and ease in general for the heads...
Thus far the coming of fall has meant only a mild yet comfortable situation of uncertainty. Business prospects appear sound and healthy, but sufficiently stabilized to obviate much speculative enthusiasm. The real difficulty, so far as domestic business is concerned, is to find an important weak spot. Even Congress-long the scapegoat of business ills-is now persuaded of the political value of a constructive rather than a destructive attitude toward economic questions. If anything, tax reductions during the coming year should make prospective legislation attractive to business...