Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself is inclined to criticize the Critic as a magazine. His real complaint seems to be that the men who revived it are merely providing a duplicate service with the Advocate and are unfair in ignoring the Advocate in their statement of policy. This is after all rather a weak line of argument. For clearly the Advocate is not even distantly related to the Critic in either content or policy. Anyone who will take the trouble to examine the Advocate for the last two years will see almost at a glance that no matter what its stated purpose...
...House today stands 308 Democrats to 113 Republicans, the Senate 60 Democrats to 35 Republicans. By all the traditions of U. S. politics. Chairman Fletcher and his G. O. Partisans should gain seats in 1934. Yet so strong still was the name of Roosevelt with the electorate and so weak were the program and personalities of his political opponents that it was generally agreed that the Republicans would probably lose anywhere up to five more seats in the Senate and could consider themselves most lucky if they maintained their present piffling strength in the House...
...which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation for a cataract of the left eye when suddenly cables from Singapore flashed that he had abdicated...
...only thing that can pull the fight today up to a fairly even level is a Crimson demonstration of a brand of offensive play far better than the weak variety shown hitherto, supplemented by a defence that is at least up to the high level set against the strong Holy Cross outfit two weeks...
...influence in history for nearly 2000 years. Why? Because behind his simple words throbbed the power of a unique, unconquerable, divine spirit. Behind the veil of utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When I and weak, then am I strong." This ideal changed slaves into masters, cowards, and weaklings into heroes, bad men into saints and martyrs. It can and will transform the world again. Charles Hooper...