Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening contest of the season the Crimson lost a sloppy game to a weak Exeter eleven through a safety 2-0 and on the following Saturday were no match for the hard-charging Worcester Academy gridders. But even at this date the Yardlings were showing improvement in spite of the one-sided 21-6 shellacking. Andover with a supposedly powerful offense nosed out the Freshmen 7-6 on a rain-soaked field two weeks...
Still a little weak in reserve linemen, the Elis this season boast the strongest all round first eleven in years. Their resourcefulness is no more considered luck especially when one realizes that since the appearance of Pond and Neale on the scene at least one touchdown has been scored in every game...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...prepared to go on a long holiday in the tropics beginning with a Caribbean cruise. Since June 1935, when Des Moines's Brothers John & Gardner Cowles Jr. paid $1,000,000 for the Star and hired their intimate friend Dave Merwin to run it, the Star's weak 80,000 circulation has been pushed to 135,000. Previously publisher of the strong little Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph which has been in his family 101 years, Dave Merwin made a place for the Star in Minneapolis largely by pointing his editorial finger at civic corruption. In two years the Star...
Aside from the point of letting the College know who has a weak constitution as early as possible, men should act now because the special doctors are in attendance now. Later in the season, he who applies, while quite within his rights in so doing, will be wasting everyone's time when he takes a doctor away from other work which should have first call...