Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distaste for the Presidency and accept it as soon as the office was endowed with power. To do this job, or refuse to do it, Poland's Parliament meets this week. Said Deputy Speaker Dr. Car, championing the draft Constitution: "Poland will really remain a Democracy, not a weak Parliamentary Democracy, but one with strong institutions...
Coach Fesler has been speeding up the passing on his aggregation yesterday and Monday, since ball handling was proven to be one of the weak points in the Crimson attack Saturday night...
Favored to down a weak M.I.T. team, the Varsity swimming team will enter its second meet of the year this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool. After swamping Bowdoin 62-9, the natators can look for only a little more opposition from the Tech team, which only managed to squeeze out a close 45-32 victory over the Maine team...
...policy," declared Premier Chautemps, "will be public safety at home and national security abroad." Flaying this platitude as "weak and vague," the Paris Press clamored for an end to what was called "the massacre of Ministries." As yet no French would-be-dictator loomed, but that slashing Conservative, onetime Premier Andre Tardieu, get out on a stump-speaking tour of the provinces to thunder: "Liberty must be protected by Authority!" Though protesting that he does not aspire to become a Hitler or Mussolini, M. Tardieu warned that "There are rising at the doors of France regimes of mass dictatorships imported...
...most startling when in a gathering of all classes at the Pierson-Trumbull debate the piano struck up "Bright College Years" to hear painfully weak humming and mumbling and to see embarrassed glances at one's neighbor. This is increasingly true in every gathering at which the grand anthem of Yale is begun. Can't we out of respect to our traditions and past glories learn this simple tune and its significant words? Many do not even realize that the words "For God, for Country, and for Yale" originated here...