Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime importance in undermining the President's general support. This, in the opinion of Castor and myself, is indeed a great misfortune. The story is told that at a banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other learned economists of our time he yearns...
...irony of Mark Antony's reference to Caesar's assassins as "honorable men" was lost-as the defense attorney hoped and expected it would be-on a bench full of Japanese naval judges weak in English classics. They assumed that when Shakespeare wrote "honorable men" he meant honorable men. The case before the court last week turned on the pivots of honor, patriotism and Japanese devotion to the Divine Emperor. One by one the six assassins had testified that in slaying Premier Ki Inukai, a clever politician known throughout Japan as "The Old Fox," they acted "to bring...
...artistry . . . full of a robust tenderness that climbs in the Christ to agonized sublimity . . . The Hell, monstrous on its minuscule scale, is terrific." Henry McBride (Evening Sun): "This submission to change involves the non-preferment of one century to another, Mais que voulez-vous? Human nature is weak, and possibly a little weaker just now than it has been for some time, so practically everybody on peering through the lens at the van Eyck Crucifixion will be stabbed to the heart to see the cruelty of the well dresed...
...view of this, the attitude of the American press fails to achieve the dignity of a crusade against oppression. It is simply in accord with the weak and vacillating policy, following the mob rather than leading it, which characterizes American journalism in times of great crisis. Perhaps the NRA may succeed; perhaps it may fail. Until something definite happens, however, editorial pens will shake warily with every tremor of public opinion, and, like the biblical character, blow neither hot nor cold...
Notably, the blocking was very weak. Harvard gave its carriers extraordinarily poor support. Again and again fast men like Allie Sherman, Pesky, and Adzigian were expected to do all the work in making first downs. With Lehigh playing a ragged, open style the "speed merchants" were able to reel off sizeable gains, but against a team like West Point these unassisted sprints will not stand a chance. Furthermore, Eddie Casey seems willing to let his quarterbacks continue the policy of running one man in play after play until sheer weariness forces his retirement. For the better part of one period...