Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pink and White" was an Homeric epithet attached to Randolph Church, 18, son of Winston Churchill, on the occasion of a slashing philippic which he delivered in the Oxford Union on the Labor Party's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME...
...65th year, with pneumonia just behind him, with his doctors optimistic but warning that the Royal heart is weak, George V stood smiling and puffing in the Royal Box as the horses lined up, sucking his favorite long pale weed with relish...
After their win over the weak St. Mark's aggregation at the opening of the season, the 1933 nine dropped four contests in a row, all the games showing up the lack of baseball skill that is contained in the present Freshman class. Last Saturday the Freshmen were scheduled to meet the Samuel Johnson Academy forces, a team that had been beaten only a few times and a well running machine that was doped utterly to blank the Freshman team. Playing the best brand of baseball that they have exhibited to date the first year nine came off with...
...closely contested game yesterday on Soldiers Field the Harvard second baseball nine went down to a 7 to 3 defeat before the strong Dean Academy team. Phineas Tobe '32, Harvard pitcher, pitched a rather weak game, allowing the visitors to collect ten hits, six of which combined in the fifth stanza to net the Franklin schoolboys five runs...
...huge new structure in New York; to the Engineering School, where able Dean Dexter S. Kitnball, Stanford classmate and close friend of Herbert Hoover, struggles manfully against lack of funds. Cornell crews no longer win at Poughkeepsie. Cornell football teams, miscoached by "Gloomy Gil" Dobie, have lost frequently to weak opponents; have played light schedules and been unsuccessful. The name of Cornell appears infrequently in metropolitan papers. Reasons: Cornell employed no press agent until two years ago; then hired not a professional but an inexperienced, inefficient Cornell graduate...