Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their beds, a habit which should cease by the age of three, Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound...
Sandwiched in with the Varsity meet are the Freshman events which will be hotly contested. No sure bet are Coach Bill Neufeld's this year, for the Yale Freshmen have the odds. The Crimson should take perhaps more than its share of first places, but it is weak in second and third place supporters. Captain Rolla Campbell is hooting for a record half mild under 1:58, and Bob Partlow will try for similar laurels in the high jump and broad jump...
...book is the author's treatment of Mussolini and Hitler. The absolute authority of Il Duce in Italy is emphatically denied. The power of the royalist elements, the Vatican, and the army under Badoglio are so strongly emphasized that poor Benito appears to be merely a rather weak prime minister. Here, it seems, Mr. Young has jumped overboard trying to prove his case. As for Hitler, it is claimed that he was deified by the German people when Hindenburg was no longer adequate as a god. Unity in the Reich is a myth; Germany today is a struggle of leaders...
Charley Smith is number one sprinter on a team weak in the sprints. Tom Lacey has been working up in the Javelin, hurling the spear 175 feet against Exeter, where he did even better as a student last year...
...only made the general intelligence test obsolete but had two profound implications for education: 1) His tests will make it easier to find the occupation for which an individual is fitted; 2) It may be possible to train and improve the particular mental abilities in which an individual is weak...