Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rebuff to President Roosevelt, the second major Congressional defeat of his Administration. But had the President really been heart & soul behind the Court? The wisest answer seemed to be: No. A Court plank had been in his party's platform. It offered an easy means of bolstering his weak foreign record. As much as anything else, defeat had been due to careless White House strategy. Because the President was not ready with his Senate program, opposition to the World Court had had two full weeks to marshal its forces...
...which have lately become speculative favorites in London: white pepper and shellac. Gamblers who had bought orange shellac on margin at 122 shillings per cwt. during last year's frantic speculation could not sell for more than seven shillings sixpence last week. Although financial editors declared that "certain weak positions have been taken over by strong hands," Mincing Lane brokers remembered that the same thing had been said before the Strauss crash. White pepper traders were chilled by the Strauss failure because they, too, must pay up or go to the wall this week when settlement...
...American Division, with no team as weak as the Eagles, the Detroit Red Wings were last week slipping into last place, while the New York Rangers, by means of their extraordinary winning streak, were climbing into third. A notch above the Rangers were the boisterous Boston Bruins, built around sandy-haired Eddie Shore. Leading the division was the team which won the Stanley Cup last year and which most experts favor to retain it this year, the Chicago Black Hawks...
Harvard has shown a stronger offense than the Big Green and the three lines which have been again scrambled should be able to wear down any opposition from the really strong first Dartmouth line, because the Indians are unusually weak on reserve strength...
Opening their seasons this afternoon, the Varsity and Freshman fencing teams will meet the Hartford Fencers' Club and Governor Dummer Academy, respectively. Coach Rone Peroy will use his strongest Varsity men, but he said yesterday that he expected to employ a weak group of Freshman fencers. Both teams will joust at the Indoor Athletic Building, the Freshmen at 2 o'clock, and the Varsity...