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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland mermen downed a weak squad from Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richard Dorr Breaks Inter-House Back Stroke Record | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

...this season as in years past. In its opener of the season against Middlebury College, Dartmouth found itself trailing 27-24 at the half. It was only with difficulty that this lead was overcome and a 43-40 victory eked out. Last Saturday the Green fared better against a weak St. Anselem's five, winning 51-23. However, it was a wild game with sloppy playing on both sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WILL MEET GREEN IN LEAGUE ENCOUNTER AT HANOVER | 12/18/1935 | See Source »

Last Wednesday while the Crimson was amassing its 39 points against B. U., Rhode Island was sweeping a weak Arnold College five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY HOOPMEN WILL MEET RHODE ISLAND TONIGHT | 12/14/1935 | See Source »

...scales, shook their heads when the needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped dieting, promptly swelled to 181. Last summer, not an ounce lighter in spite of four fretful years, Miss Freistater appealed her application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big & Strong | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...Boeglers' cream supply, Mrs. Boegler wrote her, "I will pray for your hogs to get sick and die." The hogs died. Mrs. Boegler warned Mrs. Ray that she and her husband would get sick. Mr. Ray nearly died, of no apparent disease; Mrs. Ray last week, weak with anemia, said, "Mrs. Boeglers prayers don't get out of the sound of her voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Different | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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