Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next Crimson meet, and the first league meet for the Ulenmen, comes this Saturday when a weak Pennsylvania team will hope for an upset in the local pool...
...authenticated reports, have already been established. German submarine bases on the Canary Islands could threaten Britain's route to the East around Africa. A victorious Rebel Spain, owing its very existence to German and Italian arms, was expected to join up with the dictators. Instead of having a weak, friendly Spain to her south, France would now have a strong, militarized, probable enemy to contend with. Democratic France, in short, would be bounded on three sides by Fascist powers working in concert...
...Staff had the job of bringing them to scratch. But there was plenty wrong with the rest of her three-year rearmament efforts. Four months have passed since the Czecho-Slovak war scare but few measures apparent to the public have been taken to improve Britain's shockingly weak defenses...
...stockmarket fell last week three days before Barcelona. Stock prices had been weak since the first of the year and when last week's break came they were already back at what Dow theorists call "resistance levels" (146 for Dow-Jones industrial averages, 28.8 for railroads) set by the previous reaction in November and December. Both industrial and railroad averages plummeted through these levels on heavy trading volume...
With most of Europe convinced that the fall of Barcelona was not the end of the trouble but perhaps the real beginning, war-scare was doubtless primarily to blame for the break. Brokers reported heavy liquidation from abroad. Acute weakness in foreign dollar issues led bond prices down. The Dutch guilder was weak. And, as always when Europe has the jitters, the heavy flow of gold to the U. S. quickened. In one day last week London arranged to ship...