Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proving quite weak on the defence, the Yardling lacrossemen found themselves on the short end of a 10 to 3 score against Andover last Saturday. Against the Blue's superior team work the Freshman were hampered by the less of George Hanford in the goal and Dean Morse in defense position. This teams marks the second Yearling defeat of the season in four starts...
...Thurstone's tests furnished scientific evidence that, while people who rank high in one mental ability are likely to score well in the others, frequently an individual may be strong in one faculty, weak in another. Thus people of superior intellect sometimes have poor memory. An individual may have a good memory for faces and a poor one for names, or vice versa. In the one case he ranks low in ability with words; in the other, he is deficient in visual imagery...
Spring engorgement is the result of a gradual heating of the body, said Dr. Bazett. And this heating-up may be considered the basic reason why people with weak brains tend to burst cerebral blood vessels in the spring, why people with weak hearts may collapse just as winter ends, why many who rush south to escape northern winters promptly die there...
...were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back. . . . We don't need to balance our budget. We need a balance to budget...
...Frogs, toads, alligators and opossums showed weak responses, have poor vision...