Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School men ballot on the prohibition question and the desirability of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for president. It is doubtful that prohibition voting at this late day will be significant in any other way than that the legal minds which framed the four questions are peculiarly weak in their knowledge of the constitutional obstacles in the way of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
Germs may get to the heart by way of the blood, affect the valves and keep them from closing tightly. Then there is a "leaky" heart. The walls of veins may become weak; then varicose veins. The arteries may become stiff and unyielding to the pulsating blood; this hardening of the arteries. A clot of blood may be caught (thrombosed) in a narrowed artery causing a damming of the blood flow and a bursting of the vessel...
...friend Joe Forecast in the Press Box last Saturday and we had a little talk about the week's games. I'm afraid the old boy, whose mind is a bit weak these days, may have influenced me by his sentimental appeals to his former "greatness." He used to be considered great until people realized the power of oriental methods in prognosticating, no doubt about that...
...lost. By far the most interesting phenomenon of the season, "Beacon Hill," magazine, appears on the new stands and though, still weak beside Mr. Hearst, makes a good step, and a sound step towards rehabilitating the past. The feature article opens appropriately with a sad though rousing cheer for ex-King Alphonso. The photograph of the former Spanish monarch, set next to a likeness of Queen Victoria, betrays, it is true, a certain wistfullness in its inspiration. Yet the solution for our present problems that it offers is essentially sound: Back to Queen Victoria! A charming anecdote lightens the text...
Against a Princeton team which appeared sluggish in the first half and pathetically weak in the second, Cornell's Viviano. Ferraro and Capt. Chris Martinez-Zorrilla pounced on fumbles, blocked kicks, intercepted passes and won, with ludicrous, humiliating ease...