Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thus apparent that Eros was so small that its force of gravity was too weak to pull it into anything resembling a sphere. Last week Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Princeton, reading a paper for a Harvard colleague, gave the most probable dimensions of Eros as 22 miles long, seven miles across, and its shape as roughly cylindrical, with rounded ends...
...over her purely maternal policy had involved her deep in gory deeds. For the treacherous massacre on Saint Bartholomew's Day, Biographer Roeder makes her directly responsible, attempts to show that the massacre was no part of a settled policy but a suddenly-enforced expedient to save her weak-kneed royal...
...When weak, unpopular James II came to the throne, the whip hand passed from Clavers' party to the Covenanters. James skedaddled and William of Orange took his place. William was Clavers' old commander but the Stuarts were still his liege lords, so he and Alastair left home, rode north to raise the clans. Leading his Highlandmen's victorious charge in the Pass of Killiecrankie, Clavers fell, shot from behind by a silver bullet. With the death of their leader the Stuart cause collapsed...
Heading the card will be the attempt of the undefeated varsity hockey team to win its third International Intercollegiate League victory against a comparatively weak Princeton team. The game will be played as part of a double header in the Boston Garden, with the Olympics-N. Y. Rovers game forming the second half of the program...
...potentially championship Harvard hockey team this week prepares for its third International Intercollegiate League game with a weak Princeton team; and on the basis of its play to date, victory over the Tiger seems certain, and an undefeated season is within the realm of possibility...