Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's baseball team after a rather start in the South because of weak hitting will take the field against Bowdoin University at 4 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. This is the first game for the Brunswick team and not much is known about the nine that Coach Houser will send down but it is expected that Harvard will not find the going too hard...
Coach Mitchell will stand pat on his batting order but it is likely that a change will be forthcoming in the near future if the Crimson batters do not produce more results. Harvard got splendid pitching on the Southern trip but was woefully weak at the plate and this accounted for most of the losses...
Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are enlightened and glad when she is pregnant before her time. Her lover comes to the fair; there is a brawl, her husband is killed. Effie marries the schoolteacher, who has always loved her; a few months later her child is born, but it is weakly, and soon dies. Then...
...engineers have reported that difficulty is encountered at that location because of the high water level of the Charles River. The soil has been found to be thick clay, however, and the builders feel that no trouble will be caused by a weak base...
Tall, heavy, clean-shaven, jowly, with little green eyes, big ears, big nose, petulant mouth, John Wanamaker's expression was called "cherubic-at times." Weak as a boy, he lived to be 84; though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he caught 148 fish. In national politics an unfailing Republican, in local politics he was an independent. "His farewell handshake was courtesy and geniality itself, at the same time it was a gentle push toward the door...