Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four good backs, however, remain for the first line-up, although the substitutes are weak. Chauncey, a veteran Groton back, will do the punting. As halfbacks Coach Campbell will have Gallway from St. George's and Linscott of Woburn High and Exeter. Even though the last named has a broken nose Coach Campbell finds himself obliged...
...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...
...heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds of tea-an eighth as much as is consumed by a British family. We can afford to buy tea-the problem remains to make us wish...
...friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...
...Crimson backfield should find the inexperienced southern line weak for that line has but one veteran player, Darby, an end. Who will play in the Harvard backfield, however, is the question every one is asking. Hammond, Miller, and Gehrke have been out of scrimmage for several days, and no one seems to know when they will return. From Friday and Saturday's scrimmages. Coach Fisher's plan appears to be to shift Cheek from the quarterback berth and make him offensive back with either Samborski or Home and Maher, the last named to do the punting...