Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miyakawa '26 handled the catching assignment for the entire infield practice. The little Japanese is a clever backstop and his throwing to bases was of a high order yesterday. Unless his hitting is weak, he may be a valuable acquisition to the catching staff...
...form of a "radio war" of independent operators against the four most powerful manufacturing and broadcasting corporations, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Radio Corporation of America, the General Electric Co. and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. The A. T. & T., which operates station WEAK, New York, of course, has a practical monopoly of the telephone and telegraph wires, thus enabling it to control by tolls any radio inventions requiring the use of long-distance wires as connecting links, such as the multi-plex telephone and telegraph carrier systems. Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed...
...members of our race by medicine, hygiene, and sanitation. Then, in the generations that follow, the offspring of these weaker members is as large as that of the strong; and the weaker characteristics are all passed on, quickly weakening the whole race. Before civilization discovered methods for coddling the weak, it was from the strong alone that the following generations were bred. We are faced, therefore, with the statement that morals, education, art, and even religion will not improve the human family. This, it develops, can be done only through a process of conscious biological selection and improvement. Our civilization...
Victories over the weak Rhode Island quintet and Worcester Tech, punctuated by a defeat from New Hampshire, left the University stock far below par when the Dartmouth five entered Hemenway for a return engagement. The 38 to 16 Harvard triumph surprised the team's most sanguine supporters fully as much as it did the Green invaders, who were completely outplayed from the first whistle to the last. St. Francis College two days later gave the Crimson a real scare, losing by a scant point in a hard-fought fray...
After an extremely weak first act (the fault of the play, not the players), "The Tailor Made Man" increases in interest, and by eleven o'clock the audience is quite willing to admit that Mr. Cohan has certainly earned his reputation as a producer and connoisseur of humorous drama...