Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there must flow something more than a trace of rodent blood, exalts some who are weak and throws mud at some who are strong. ... All this is published by a dying newspaper, recently purchased at auction by an Old Dealer-a cold-blooded reactionary-who was one of the principal guides along the road to the disaster of 1929 [TIME, March 5]." Few anonymous commentators on the political scene have received better advertising out of Washington...
...Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive out weak, shoddy, self-centered songs that too often are mere piffle...
...cycle is that, having immunized most of a city's schoolchildren, measles does not strike again until a fresh, fairly large crop of children have come along. But, because an epidemic's end-cases are usually mild, some investigators think the causative virus may grow weak, need a year or two to regain virulence...
...neither. He told Snowden: "I never have been able to understand treasury economics. ... I can't see that ?20 taken from a rich man and given to 20 poor men means a loss of business. . . . Let's call for sacrifices all round. Instead of starting with the weak and hopeless-that is, the unemployed down-&-outs-let's start at the top . . . unless we are willing to say, 'Let them starve.'" Not long afterward the Cabinet split mortally and foundered. Down went most of Labor. Up went the Three. Old George, largely because...
...such courses as Government 1 and English A are to be made really worth while for the majority, the weak men must be weeded from the sections and replaced as far as possible with unemployed men of proven worth. If this seems too much of a revolution among the ranks of the lowly section man in the estimation of University Hall a second alternative, that of assigning more students to a few of the better instructors would effect both amelioration of the students' lot and economy as well. Though discussion might be somewhat curtailed in theory, the fact is that...