Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only surprise man in the lineup is Groudahl in left field. Last year as a Freshman he was regular shortstop but his hitting in the cage has impressed Mitchell so that he has been shifted to bolster the weak-sticking outer garden squad...
Chief Justice Hughes' letter itself presented incontrovertible facts which place the administration in a woefully weak position. Senator Wheeler's comment emphasising the "deplorable misinformation" of Attorney-General Cummings is the only possible reaction to Hughes' account of the efficiency of court procedure. The use by Cummings and the President of the false postulate that the inherent weakness of their case. Some of the the court was running behind on its docket shows bitterness of President Roosevelt's Victory Dinner declamation must be neutralized by the incontestable fact that the "Nine Old Men" have kept up with their work...
...women to start off the Oneida venture, which began in a log house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet...
Concerning the new French Loan he said, "Its significance lies in its effects upon the franc. The franc has been weak largely as a result of the continued outflow of capital which is to be associated with unsettled conditions in Europe and lack of faith in the French Popular Front Government...
Slang, not the weak, evasive variety, but the short, vibrant phrases, bitten off neatly, inseparably linked with a harsh nasal drawl, and dear to every trans-Mississippi heart, such slang will set, many a pair of ears tingling. Frightened men are no longer gravely alarmed; they have the hell scared out of them. Superlatives are no longer the acme of this or that; they are the cat's pajamas...