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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flesh Is Weak. In Duluth, a gunman mailed back $60 of the $200 he had stolen from Grocer Ezzy Lebo, enclosed a note: "I have a tremendous conscience, but I also have a stomach that is bigger than my conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 4, 1954 | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Enrollment at UMass may very well soon equal that of midwestern state universities, but Mather contends that his college will never become as football conscious or intellectually weak as some of those institutions. His attitude toward intercollegiate football is, in fact, considerably less favorable than the Massachusetts student body and athletic staff would probably like...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Fast Expanding University of Massachusetts Seeks to Discard Outworn 'Cow College' Label | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

Left Guard Weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Redmen from U. of Mass. Seek Major Upset in Stadium, Relying on Strong Passing Attack, Heavy Line, and Depth | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...weak point O'Rourke has been working on this fall is his team's pass defense, which last year was quite ineffectual, 14 out of 36 opposition touchdowns being scored through the air. The Massachusetts coaches don't claim that they've overcome this problem completely, but they're confident that this year's team will at least show some improvement over the '53 squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Redmen from U. of Mass. Seek Major Upset in Stadium, Relying on Strong Passing Attack, Heavy Line, and Depth | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...sounded plausible enough. Thirty years ago he had begun transplanting parts of animals (glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help from Animal Cells? | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

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