Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple method of grouting. To grout is to force behind the stone facings liquid cement which, oozing through the broken rubble, would petrify it into a rigid mass capable of sustaining any weight. That grouting would do no more good than grouching, for the piers themselves rested on a weak foundation which delved little below the crypt. The only way to keep St. Paul's from replacing London Bridge in the famed nursery rhyme was to remove the dome and deepen the foundation. In short, some said one thing, some another. The Dean was rather confused than relieved...
...once, Collier's Weekly, which has long been suspected of liberal or even reforming intentions has disclosed its hand. Mankind, from the cradle onward, is to be remodeled by a page of inspired precepts, according to the latest issue. Among other duties, man is to "help and protect the weak, the suffering, the young, and the old, and dumb animals"--a notable climax! Who will hereafter revolt, when in his youth he is taught to "respect all who have more wisdom, and to reverence all that is good...
Chlorine. No evidence has been produced from clinical researches that the chlorine-gas treatment for diseases of the respiratory system has any curative effect. The doses which can be taken without danger are exceedingly weak. Scientists hope to find a better gas for the purpose.-Major H. J. Nichols, Army Medical School...
...stressing the point that this was "a year of big opportunity," and that "Harvard athletics had slipped a little during the past year or two." Coach R. W. Harwood '20 made a special appeal for more candidates in the pole-vault, an event in which the University was woefully weak last year...
Anger flails his weak bloody fists against the vaulting out of which he is moulded...