Word: weak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theodore, as he grew older, was nonetheless a boy sorely beset. "I was a sickly, delicate boy," he wrote, "and suffered much from asthma. One of my memories is ... of sitting up in bed gasping, with my father and mother trying to help me." His arm muscles were so weak that he could not stand up to other youngsters. One day his father encouraged him: "You have the mind but not the body . . . You must make your body. It is hard drudgery, but I know you will do it." Theodore organized a gymnasium with horizontal bars and a punching...
Looser & Stronger. The committee conceded that the industry at first tried to put out effective filters. But when smokers found the cigarettes too weak, "first, the filters were loosened to permit a larger number of smoke particles to get through. Second, the blend was changed to include more of the stronger, heavier-bodied tobaccos." In 1952 P. Lorillard Co. (Kent) designed a filter that let in only i milligram of nicotine, 9 milligrams of tar; unfortunately, the sales did not reflect the effectiveness, and last year, said the committee, Kent's new filter let through double this nicotine...
...been the subcommittee chairman, Missouri Democrat Morgan Moulder. Next day Moulder resigned his chairmanship, to be replaced by Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris, chairman of the full House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Schwartz characteristically repaid Moulder for his backing. Said he: "He turned out to be a weak...
...varsity will play its last non-Ivy League game of the regular season tomorrow night when it faces off against a weak Providence sextet at 8 p.m. on the Watson...
Varsity fencers last night defeated a weak M.I.T. team by a score of 20 to 7. This was the identical score by which Crimson swordsmen downed the University of Connecticut last Saturday...