Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school of brittle intellectuals which bathed in the flotsam of a world beside itself. The decade of the twenties found a group of poets who distrusted the emotions, the subtler verse forms, the glories of nature, the grandeur of idealism. While the Romantics were making their last weak exit lines, these poets sat in a front box thumbing their noses with great determination. Today at 9 o'clock in Sever 7, Dr. Carpenter will lecture in America's contemporary poetry. The Vagabond is going; for don't doctors work on diseased corpses? And all the poetry is not discuses even...
Last week the Federal Farm Board was back in the wheat market buying futures. Good times, not bad, put it there. There was a crop failure in Russia. U. S. grain prices spurted up and away from the weak security market. Talk of "dollar wheat" got back in press headlines. Farmers, faintly smiling, began paying off long overdue bills. A corner of some kind had been turned in wheat history...
Japan ignored weak China and the impotent League of Nations last week, faced the first real threat to her designs on Manchuria, a threat from Russia...
Last week the Department of Commerce opened the airways to glass-wearers. Henceforth applicants will be considered if their eyes, no matter how weak, measure 20/30 or better with glasses. Those who pass by means of glasses must wear them whenever they fly. Penalty: grounding. About 60% of all persons up to middle age could meet the revised requirement, which is little more strict than that for automobile drivers (20/40...
...varsity squad down in Cambridge watching the Crimson playing the same team which made such a great comeback against the Elis last week; the remainder of the Blue forces will be saved to guard against any surprises by St. John's, although any such chances would appear very weak in view of the 59 to 0 rout to which they were subjected early in the season by Western Maryland. Next week the Elis earn a complete rest, which from both a psychological and physical viewpoint, should key them up to a far better pitch than their traditional rivals. The Yale...