Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sensing that Scot MacDonald's "weak" policy is really "strong," the House decisively rejected 369 to 43 last week a die-hard proposal by Winston Churchill specifically to bar India from attaining "dominion status" as defined by the Statute of Westminster (see above). Mr. Churchill argued that "India during the War gained dominion status in rank, honor and ceremony" which, for Indians, he thought, should be enough. Excitedly brandishing a copy of the MacDonald declaration, Alarmist Churchill tried to link with "such weakness" the sharp break in the British pound...
After a supposedly weak line had surprisingly stood off Penn's Perina and Kellett for 50 minutes, a long pass (Kirn to Tschirgi) gave Navy a touchdown and the game...
...offered the roads by I. C. C. in October in answer to the carriers' plea for a 15% all-around freight rate increase (TIME, Nov. 2). This plan offered to increase the December rates if all roads would pool their income from the increase for the benefit of weak-sisters. Thinking this too much like a dole, strong roads balked, counter-proposed to loan the money where needed at a fair rate of interest. Last week the I. C. C. agreed to this by a seven-to-four majority, said individual roads could keep the increased revenues for themselves...
...which will supposedly be proven superior, differ chiefly in that when Lenz makes an opening bid of two in any suit, he invites (without compelling) his partner to make an answering bid. Culbertson's initial bid of two is a command for partner to respond, no matter how weak partner's hand may be. Here is what each expert feels he must have in his hand for opening suit bids of one, two or three: Bid Lenz Culbertson 1 2½ tricks 2½ tricks No difference 2 3 or 3½ tricks 5 or 5½tricks...
...Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child of one, a boy of twelve, and a man whose chief pre-occupation at the age of thirty was to manouvre little lead soldiers over a battle ground of table linen. When one thinks of the country...