Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort-of play which is suited to the talents of Manager Giles' company. Although Avery Hopwood wrote a weak third act for his comedy, the two acts preceding it are more than sufficiently funny to make the whole a fine evening's entertainment...
...stockmarket has continued to prove the most active spot in business. Volume has been continuing at about an average of 2,000,000 shares a day, with rising prices in both rails and industrials. Liberty bonds, on the other hand, have been weak and other gilt-edged bonds have been stationary or weak-another normal sign of a good-sized "bull market." The heavy trading in shares has drawn forth many comparisons with active markets in the past-particularly with that of 1901. As yet, however, the present market has still to equal many records established in that financial classic...
...Last year's Freshman team sends up wealth of fine material. Captain Coady is a big asset, a trifle weak defensively, but strong offensively, as he is very fast, is a good stick-handler, and has a strong shot. Zarakov is one of the cleverest hockey players to come to the University in a long time. Though not especially fast, he makes up for this by his dodging and will give any defense plenty of trouble...
...That, as compared with the navies of Great Britain and Japan, the U. S. Navy is "weak to a point of serious and alarming degree"?in fact, lags far behind the other two in strength. This point Mr. Shearer supports with a mass of detail similar to that given out by him last spring...
Married Flirts jumbles familiarly about with wives and husbands who will not stay firmly married. Two wives and two husbands are shuffled back and forth with no particular success as entertainment. Pauline Frederick is included to bolster up an obviously weak narrative. The sum total is singularly meagre...