Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enforcement as a captain takes charge of a ship, purposed to navigate it like an old New England skipper. Finding that the one of the chief obstacles in his way was his crew, he set out to remove it. Plans were laid, and last week he announced that the weak must walk the plank, and traitors hang from the yard...
...fulfill their literal contract by paying them with this now worthless currency. The new bonds are in terms of U. S. gold dollars and in this respect at least stand on a different financial basis. Morally Mr. Zimmerman's protest is well taken, but legally it is fatally weak. The effect of. his action, however, is important, not only with the new Cologne dollar loan, but with a number of other dollar loans sought at the present time in Wall Street by various German municipalities...
...Much comment was heard regarding the efficient and up-to-date methods by which Abd-el-Krim is conducting his campaign. His staff work seems of a high order, each attack evidently being-planned with great care and almost invariably at the weakest point of the French positions, made weak, of course, by the staff's strategy...
...special committee of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions reported that numbers of foreign missionaries, including many of the older men, were weak in the faith. This was followed by a resolution offered by a Fundamentalist, the Rev. Walter B. Hinton of Portland, Ore., proposing that all missionaries should be obliged to affirm their belief in the Baptist creed...
Marshall Field, a methodical young man (aged 32, Eton and Cambridge graduate), with a weak, attentive face, took charge, in 1920, of the $120,000,000 Field estate, of which he was the principal heir, is interested in arts, charities, sports, has been a liberal contributor to scientific explorations, notably that of William Beebe to the Sargasso Sea. Captain Roald Amundsen invited him to serve on an advisory committee when he was making plans for his recent polar flight...