Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against Virginia Annapolis showed thats its one weakness was in a sound pass defense. It is that weak shell that Art Oakes, Austie Harding, Frank Feley, Bob Burnett, and the rest of the Harvard pass combine will attempt to crack...
Heckel, Junior Varsity third baseman last year, should fit into the Varsity picture this pring. He is a steady, fast fielder but has heretofore proved pretty weak at the plate. If he can improve his hitting a place in the infield is waiting for him. Bob Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder...
...Moreover, Renovator KamĊl Atatürk brusquely called back last week from the League of Nations session famed Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras, a onetime obstetrician who was present at the accouchement of Young Turkey and has represented her abroad for so long that his weak eyes, peering keenly from behind thick-lensed spectacles of highest power have become fixtures at the green tables of Europe's diplomats...
Music for Madame (RKO Radio). Nino Martini's tenor insufficiently disguises a weak-backed melofarce...
...They Gave Him a Gun" is the story of a youth whose aversion to killing in 1917 turns into his source of income as a racketeer after the Armistice. Knowing he is weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun in front of him he is as strong as any man. Franchot Tone, looking less like a plucked chicken than usual, gives an excellent portrayal as the dough-boy gangster, and he is adequately backed by the performances of Spencer Tracy and Gladys Goerge...