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Word: weak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aroused Brown Bear, still smarting from that week's loss to Princeton's weak hockey team, will be fighting for his Pentagonal life tonight when the varsity sextet enters his cigar-shaped Providence lair at 8:30 p.m. The Crimson freshmen meet Brown's '57 sextet in the 7 p.m. preliminary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Faces Brown In League Contest Tonight | 2/10/1954 | See Source »

...There is somewhat more hope for peace and stability in the world than existed a year ago but the world still remains an unsafe place for the weak, the weary and the unwary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: World Outlook | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...relay of coaches, who put her through the plot, brushed her up on the endless chatter of Italian recitatives, reminded her of the Metropolitan's new stage layout. At 5:30 she was polishing off a preperformance steak ("If I don't eat, I feel weak before the show is over"), and at 6:45 was going over some crucial musical points with Conductor Fritz Stiedry. "I told him-I mean asked him-to have confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Firehouse Coloratura | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...atoms makes the liquid give flashes of light. They are too faint for human eyes to see, but photomultiplier tubes pick them up. The whole system is immersed in liquid mercury. As a further safeguard, the counting apparatus is adjusted so that it ignores all flashes of light too weak or too strong to come from Carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Gadgets | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

Other big unions apparently have not been hurt by Taft-Hartley. But it probably has hit some weak unions. Under Taft-Hartley, workers striking for economic reasons -may not vote in plant elections. Hence, an employer can hire non-union workers, hold an election and exclude the striking workers. Dwight Eisenhower views this as a "union busting" license, and wants to prohibit such votes until the strike is at least four months old. Even so, there is little solid evidence of Taft-Hartley's overall effects, good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TAFT-HARTLEY CHANGES | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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