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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just what most of these eight teams do in their games today will not make much difference, since the opposition is admittedly weak but it will be possible at least to get some line on their style of play and on their potentialities. Of more interest, however, will be the Harvard-Vermont game next Saturday when all may see what the Harvard team that is going to play all this opposition actually looks like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/27/1930 | See Source »

...company is that selected by the author and they fulfill the requirements of his lines thoroughly. There is no individual star, although occasionally the excellence of some one of them draws the warranted applause of the none too copious audience. In fact there is but a single weak point in the performance and that is the conclusion which lets one down with something of a jolt. A rapid and pleasant crescendo suddenly dwindles off into absolute nothing, but is compensated by what goes before. If you have not seen this you most certainly should at the earliest opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BIRD IN HAND" | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

...while a story is essential to bind the film together, it seems that Howard Hughes was out to fill the requirement but no more and the result is that the picture is a series of unexcelled air scenes interrupted by a few feeble shots of uninteresting characters in sadly weak roles...

Author: By E. F. N., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

With the industry in a bad statistical position and consumption dropping, there was no immediate assurance for rubbermen last week. But there remained knowledge that the immutable law of supply & demand, victor over every plan so far, will eventually force weak companies out," enable the situation to mend itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber Drop | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

...hundreds of paintings signed with his name. Of these J. C. Van Dyke says 48 are genuine, but Hofstede de Groot lists 998, and controversy is wrathful. His character and temperament must be deduced largely from his paintings, a work requiring exact study. Herr Ludwig presents a changeable, sensual, weak figure that does not convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Edward to George & Mary* | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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