Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich man. He had made millions in real estate, millions more in beer. But he was not happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he could buy the down-at-the-heels New York Yankees, weak sister of the American League, for $450,000. He did-in 1915, with a rich contractor, Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston, as partner. For the next five years the two optimists shopped for a player who could produce home runs, finally found him in Pitcher Babe Ruth, whom they bought...
...question of who will take the Freshman meet which starts at 7:30 o'clock is a hard one to settle. The Brown correspondent lays claim to a very weak '42 team but then Yardling Coach Pete Petersen's squad is still in the undeveloped class as well...
Lettermen Fred Heckel and Bill Humes cleared up some of Wes Fesler's worries, but he had to experiment extensively to find another guard. When a starting five was finally placed together, it was woefully weak in experience, but worse than that it turned out to be one of the shortest quintets to wear the Crimson in many a year. The Sophomores' one and only seasoned contribution was Homer Peabody, hard-working and aggressive center, who quickly ousted Bill Humes from his first-string pivot post...
From all indications it appears that Greenwood will bring to the Indoor Athletic Building a rather weak team as it has in the past. Hailing from Gardner, Massachusetts, where the "Memorial" is a club of the Y. M. C. A. variety, the Greenwood boys will have the rely upon their nerve rather than their swimming ability to score many points against the Ulenmen...
...only three alternatives: 1) boost crop prices by controlling farm production, in which AAA I and AAA II have only partly succeeded; 2) lower prices of manufactured goods; 3) devalue the dollar again, giving commodity prices an inflationary shot in the arm. With new devaluation already threatened for the weak currencies of Britain and France, the homecoming of Ambassador Kennedy from England last fortnight hatched a new brood of rumors that the dollar's gold content was about to be cut from 59? to 50?. Asked about these rumors, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wearily gave his standard answer...