Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defend their second place league position of last season will probably be decided during the trip to Canada. For the Crimson still appear to be the class of the American contenders, despite their small margin of victory against Princeton. Unpredictable Yale, however, recently provided a paradox by losing to weak Montreal and holding powerful McGill the very next night to Red Birds smallest margin of victory...
...last moment just in time to win the annual Army game. James Stewart is the bashful, blushing here, who spends half his time examining his feet in boyish timidity. Robert Young is his roommate who learns to love the glorious traditions of the Navy. Florence Rice is a very weak love interest...
...Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" presents the thrilling spectacle of the weak child hero who rises to the occasion at the crisis, rides his horse to a spectacular victory in the big race, foils the crooks, and converts his wayward jockey friend into a straight shootin', honest guy (tomato"). Ronald Sinclair as the boy-hero is a carbon copy of Freddie Bartholomew, English accent...
...Finance Ministry passed to Paul Marchandeau, Mayor of Rheims, a battle-scarred holder of the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. He is the sort of man sound men call sound. Even so, on international exchange the franc remained weak while France sat tight in the badly rocked boat of her political equilibrium. For despite every effort made by all parties concerned to conceal it, the Popular Front of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists was in a state of disintegration, and the chances of its long survival seemed slim. In his ministerial declaration Premier Chautemps frankly confessed that...
...husband, who appeared disappointingly weak, was having difficulty keeping her fur cost, which he carried, off the ground. Further, he displayed what appeared to be an unhealthy interest in the library's collection of ballet works. Mrs.Gregory took a more practical view of things and requested a list of all the books on Sarawak that the library had. Later in the day attendants sent the list to her suite at the Copley...