Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total of whose previous experience has been supplied by the sidewalks of a large city, he brings the broadening influence of an entirely novel social point of view. This, coupled with the high, if vague idealism of early manhood, is something which not even inadequate methods and weak sentimentalism can wholly cheapen. That the preservation of this idealism to the student's later life is a matter of vital importance to the community is unquestioned; that by means of an efficient system it may be transformed into immediate effective service to the objects of his benevolence is quite as true...
...classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly back to the Order of Knighthood, which for centuries furnished the brain and spirit and sinew to European armies . . . to succor the weak and to maintain the right amidst the horrors of the Dark Ages . . . humbleness in victory, stoicism in hardship, patience in defeat . . . 'a gentleman and a soldier.' " His idol is not Abraham Lincoln, who committed the gauchcrie of calling 75,000 men for three months to fight a war which took...
...Weak and diseased women would have relief...
Oxford was weak. Grip had come upon her crew, afflicted man after man with grievous coughs, so that, on the day of the race, an oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...
...verb "broadcast" is a comparatively recent addition to the English language, formed on the adverb "broadcast." It is an accepted rule that coined words should be inflected regularly and, in this case, "broadcasted" would be the regular past tense of a weak verb. "Broadcast" as the past tense is, then, technically incorrect...