Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's principal weakness exhibited in Saturday's 14-0 upset was the lack of spirit, and the poor coordination which the team displayed against the Bears' unified teamwork. The Crimson's serial attack was also lamentably weak, with only two passes completed out of the dozen attempted. Time after time the ball went spinning wide of the mark when a successful pass would have stemmed the Brown tide...
...personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
...notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco, they gaily engage to meet on New Year's Eve at Agua Caliente. A quiet, sharp, romantic tragedy. One Way Passage was directed with...
...carried on an unceasing campaign to protect the nation. . . . Many of these battles have had to be fought in silence, without the cheers of the limelight or the encouragement of public support because the very disclosure of the forces opposed to us would have undermined the courage of the weak and induced panic in the timid. Hideous misrepresentations had to be accepted in silence. . . There has been much of tragedy but a great national victory has been achieved¯President Hoover at Des Moines...
...were speeding toward Turin, newshawks in Paris flocked to the Hotel Lincoln. He had promised them an interview at 10:30 a. m., thus insuring himself a good chance for a clean getaway the night before. The reporters grew impatient. When Mrs. Insull, recently ill and still wan and weak, came out to go shopping they besieged her. "Please let me alone!" she cried hysterically. "I know nothing about my husband's affairs. Please, please let me alone!" Years ago Gladys Wallis was a pretty actress. The titles of some of her plays when up & coming Sam Insull courted...