Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After Business Hours. It is hard to stand the strain of a weak heroine stumbling through reels of irrational rot, and seemingly, the actors find...
Last year, there was a chorus of protest. This year, there was only a weak peep of dissent...
CRUEL FELLOWSHIP-Cyril Hume- Doran ($2.50). Claude Fisher was a lonely, weak, little boy. Caught in a mutual investigation party with a tough little girl, he was told he was nasty, believed it. He had pimples and no friends-only bookish dreams of exquisite accessible females. These disgraced him at college, spoiled him for the devotion of calf-like Lucy. He fell back on sickly cynicism and the friendship of a fellow book salesman. But the salesman was called "The Violet." Revolted, Claude took up with a fox-terrier. A motor truck ended that affair, much as Author Hume ends...
...Smith to contribute to the cause of medical research. At present engaged in the accretion of wealth by promoting "Pepsodent," a dentifrice, Mr. Smith long ago made his fortune from a most beneficent bactericide which he called "Liquozone." This latter, a potion for internal consumption, consisted largely of a weak aqueous solution of sulphuric acid (about 9/10 of 1%) and sulphurous acid (3/10 of 1%). It was exploited as a cure for 26 specific diseases of the widest pos- sible range, as well as for "all diseases that begin with fever-all inflammations -all catarrh-all contagious diseases...
There is, in fact, great difficulty in saying the stockmarket is so-and-so, since it no longer acts as a unit with any degree of consistency. On a day when one group of stocks?e. g., the oils ?are strong, another group or groups will be weak. Moreover, within a single group of stocks, there are frequently opposite tendencies in the prices of different stocks...