Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak denials, vows, and often-dyings...
...tutoring schools should not degenerate into "passing C" factories. They should not be expected or allowed to push the lazy, weak or stupid through Harvard at any price. They should not put a premium on animal cunning in getting through examinations. Lastly, they should never, under any conditions, be allowed to write theses for students or to do work requiring the student's personal labor and attention. These are the dangers which have brought down on the heads of the schools both criticism and apprehension, and it is the elimination of these dangers for once and for all at which...
...Garden of Allah's weak point is its story, its strong point is its female star. In the first place, to Marlene Dietrich's golden hair and porcelain skin, color is more complimentary than it has been to any other actress who has so far tried it. In the second place, the North African desert is her specialty. In the third place, if there is any actress in Hollywood whom cinemaddicts have always yearned to see in the flesh-to which color film is the closest practical approach-Marlene Dietrich...
UNEQUAL To SONG-Charles Martin-Stackpole ($2.50). Promising first novel that contains good portraits of Cajuns from the Teche country of Louisiana, weak portraits of a tough banker and a drunken composer, a confused story about their clash of wills...
...same trouble with fundamentals that has been the Yardlings attack all season showed up again Saturday. The tackling was weak, and the blockers were not clearing...