Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhodes Scholars know that he is Chancellor of Oxford University. Sportsmen and naturalists may have heard that he is an ardent fisherman and a lover of wild life, but few are aware of the extent to which he has carried this passion, of the work and patience the weak-eyed old gentleman (he is 70) has expended to tame wild fowl to the point where he could learn facts about them which naturalists have been able only to surmise. In the September-October issue of Natural History, published this week, Lord Grey reveals many facts unknown to U. S. sportsmen...
Arthur Sampson said recently in the Herald that "a tough early season game often is a blessing in disguise--when weak opposition allows improperly timed plays to look good there is nothing gained toward development." Thus from a purely football point of view, the game was even worse than worthless. Sampson says again that in set-up games "there is no indication of faults which need correction, and the pressure of major competition brings these weaknesses to light too late to do any good." The game was then absolutely indefensible with regard to fair play and value to the team...
...watched his men go through a grass drill, Coach Bond characterized the group as looking better than last year's turnout. The squad at the moment possesses plenty of material for the backfield and in the way of guards and tackles, but the ends are light and the centres weak...
While Mr. Coe has an excellent grasp of the field of education today, he is lamentably weak in his treatment of governmental theory. Belief in more democracy as a cure for the evils of democracy, and faith in a rather out-worn liberalism tend to weaken greatly the value of his constructive suggestions. And again, he fails to recognize that one generation is bound to try to teach the next the existing ideals and prejudices. People will not support schools which teach what are held to be subversive doctrines...
...Hitlering Hitler. Since President von Hindenburg continued to back Chancellor von Papen to the limit last week, Germany's largest parties (Fascist & Socialist) were faced with the alternative of attempting a coup d'état or filing weak protests...