Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity hockey team, with what it hopes was just a sad mistake behind it, travels to Vermont today to oppose a Middlebury team which is largely an unknown quantity. The Vermonters opened their season yesterday at West Point against a very weak Army sextet and emerged with an 11-1 victory. However, as Middlebury coach Duke Nelson points out, the win did little to establish anything about his squad except that it can beat Army...
However, it is fairly certain that this evening's contest will be a good deal closer than the varsity's 7-1 win last year. Middlebury retains much of last year's depth, with two solid, experienced lines at its disposal. The third unit is quite weak and will see little action, leaving the offensive burden resting with the strong first line of Mike Karen, Dick Morrison, and Phil LaTreille...
...teams in other sports. The current Harvard freshman team boasts three rugged Oklahomans (two of them National Merit Scholars), amazed the experts by walloping the best Boston College freshman team in years. Yale came forth with a freshman squad exceptionally well-fixed at end, quarterback and fullback, precisely the weak spots on the current varsity...
...Erie got permission from the ICC in July to coordinate some facilities and operations in New York State. With the Erie and Lackawanna operating in the red and the more financially stable Delaware & Hudson hard hit by losses on a coal subsidiary, the proposal would combine three fairly weak roads into a network with assets of $952 million and 5,377 miles of main track in seven states, some of which could be eliminated in a merged line...
...both "the indulgent sentimentalists, who melt as they tell of the handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author of his own downfall, the boring, drunken spoil-sport...