Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Space Scientist Wernher von Braun [Sept. 21], always more adept at obtaining newspaper space than in penetrating outer space, is also weak in the history of his adopted country. "My country, right or wrong" is no "old English saying" but a slight misquote of a toast by Stephen Decatur.*The English view was best expressed by G. K. Chesterton: " 'My country, right or wrong' ... is like saying My mother, drunk or sober...
...Crimson should not experience its customary difficulty in scoring against a fairly weak Green defense. On the other hand, holding the Indians scoreless or nearly so will present something of a problem. A varsity victory is by no means certain...
Appellant Calls Precedent Weak...
...game with Dartmouth could go either way. The Indians have plenty of motivation to win: they are still without a victory, they have yet to score in a League game, and they were humiliated, 16 to 8, by Harvard in 1958. The Indians, though overrated, are not a weak team...
...most hopeful prospect at the moment is the summer session. As an institution, it has existed for years, but only recently has the summer session become something more than a device by which the brilliant can accelerate their education while the weak catch up with the work they failed to master during the regular year. And even in the relatively long existence of college summer schools, the session has generally been regarded as something for those with unusual needs or interests--teachers or exceptional students who want or need to spend more of their time in classes...