Word: weakeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Reader Willett ("Losers," TIME Letters, Oct. 5) has buffaloed TIME'S timely editors, forced them to a weak reply to his implications of impure motives in their selection of Republican Chairman Hamilton as man-of-the-week, led them to select for their Oct. 5 issue two men-of-the-week (Yankee Gehrig and Giant Hubbell), one of whom must be a winner...
Schuschnigg suddenly struck last week, Prince Starhemberg found himself so weak that instead of calling upon the Heimwehr to rise, he told these mercenary troopers: "Do not become traitors to the Heimwehr spirit by offering any resistance to the Government." Easy-going Viennese called this Prince Starhemberg's "political abdication" and his easy-going Heimwehr submitted quietly to being dissolved, inasmuch as they were offered a chance to join up at similar pay as members of the new Dictator's own so-called Front Militia. These sweeping changes occupied Chancellor Schuschnigg the whole night. By dawn the Schuschnigg...
...animals in Africa last winter to investigate their adrenal glands. Because the lion's adrenals weighed 1/11,,000th of its total weight, Surgeon Crile declared that its "sympathetic complex" made the lion the "most volatile of beasts." Her frizzy hair dyed corn-yellow, her blue eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will...
This year, the beginning of a fourth century for Harvard and an eighth decade for the "Advocate," looks rather bright from the weather work quarters on Bow Street, Advocate House. Subscriptions, articles, series, and some rather weak verse are filling up, and it would seem that haughty Mother Advocate has definitely recovered from her tussle with the Cambridge vice squad over some certain salacity last fall...
Marriage takes Kit out of the working class, lifts her into the family of a powerful bootlegger named Tom Halsey. Despising her husband, Halsey's weak-kneed son, she breaks away from him as soon as she discovers that the comfort he provides cannot end her restlessness. She loves to drive, gets a job running liquor over the mountains. Once she drives her car into the car of Federal agents to prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt...