Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak man," says Pioneer Taylor. "I was so shot to pieces during the War that I really have no strength at all. Would you believe that I was able to drive an S. S. from here to Palm Beach in one full day - 1,200 miles? That gives you some idea...
...Rodgers & Hart melodies ("When You've Got a Little Springtime In Your Heart," "Over My Shoulder Goes Care," "Dancing on the Ceiling") sound infinitely better than their titles. Miss Matthews sings and dances to them as gracefully as they deserve. The only really weak spots in Evergreen are its happily infrequent efforts to be comic. Sample: The heroine to her scapegrace father: "Do you mind if I open the window?" His reply: "No, but don't give...
...advantages of the modified tutorial plan outlined in this report can be briefly summarized. First, the economics proposed would not weaken Harvard's educational machinery. On the contrary, it seems likely that the tutorial system would be strengthened, particularly in those Departments where it is now weak, by concentrating its efforts upon students who are able to make use of its facilities. Second, the most capable students would be given greater freedom and stronger incentive to do their best work; the less capable would not suffer any real deprivation, since, by definition, they are the ones who do not take...
...National Association of Manufacturers. If they were as constant readers of TIME as I they would know that to enjoy a crack at Big Hearted (with other people's money) Harry Hopkins and Honest Harold Ickes we must learn to take one ourselves occasionally. Mr. Bath is as weak on hitching his quotation to the right person as the schoolgirl who thought that Laurel was the man who said, "Kiss me, Hardy...
Tomorrow's Harvest (by Hans Rastede & Hyman Adler; Douglas G. Hertz, producer). By means of a weak heart Papa Goerlich, a fireside Hitler, tyrannizes over his cowed German-American family. Nothing must be done to excite him for fear the result might be fatal. It takes Papa Goerlich an unconscionable amount of time to die but he finally does. Tomorrow's Harvest falters on for another act, then it does...