Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must have strong, sensitive feet; that her body balance must be so perfected that she can stand, move, change direction or position at any time with poise and ease; that her readiness for movement must mean control and decision rather than nervous anticipation. Sagging abdominal muscles, rigid or weak backs have no place in a dancer's body...
...Poor Little Rich Girl (Twentieth Century-Fox). Shirley Temple pictures, emerging with the regularity of the seasons, have one point in common. All are minutely tailored to suit her requirements. In this procedure, the weak point is that Shirley Temple's requirements have now outgrown the ingenuity of her purveyors. Her current summer issue, in doing justice to the Temple torch song and tap dance, neglects the Temple talent for emotional acting...
...farms increased from 73 in the spring of 1935 to 89 in the last planting season. Average farm wages, with board & room, rose from $19.11 per month to $20.89. Farm income was running at the highest level since 1930. Drought, particularly in the Northwest, is the weak spot in the current farm picture...
...principles were weak, but his spirits...
...careful time measurements between Paris, Green wich and the U. S., Dr. Stetson had perfected an alternative explanation: The signals do actually vary in speed because they choose different paths across the world. On some days they lope along near the equator, where the terrestrial magnetic field is weak, and keep up to, or very close to, the speed of light. Other days they go by way of the polar regions, where the strong magnetic field slows them down. As to why the same signal should stray one way one day and another the next, Dr. Stetson could only suggest...