Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Golden Harvest?" Alarmist reports from the Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
When first the Russian Communists started to undermine the power of the Russian Orthodox Church they welcomed into their country Baptists, Methodists, helped thereby to create factions in the Orthodox Church and weaken it. In time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but also Russian Atheism. The Soviet Government, therefore, has lately passed several laws intended to weaken Baptist activities (TIME, April 22). Last week, Russian Baptists, still strong, conducted a mass and total Baptism in the Moscow River. Horrified the Soviet Working Moscow editorialized: "Right here in Moscow! With the All Union...
...late bucketshop firm of Kable & Co. . . . Would you have me promptly deny for you participation in any such transaction? . . ." The Bishop, who said that he first properly "digested and appraised" this ''suggestive skilfully-worded telegram," answered: "Affidavits evidently sent you for purely political purposes to destroy or weaken effect of my opposition to Wet Tammany Candidate Smith, parties selecting you as mouthpiece. I have bought and sold stocks and bonds and other kinds of property for many years, making full or partial payments on same just as other men do, but in such transactions...
...University nine hammered out five runs in the first three innings of yesterday's game to gain an easy 5 to 1 verdict over Bates College. Howard Whitmore '29 pitched no-hit ball for eight innings, only to weaken with one out in the ninth when three of the visiting batters found him for hits, one a triple, netting a lone tally...
...great weakness of the peace settlement was not that it had not solved this question, but that it had not followed the principle of self-determination as far as possible. In the desire to weaken the defeated central powers and to strengthen the smaller or newly-created succession states considerations of strategy, of communications and of geography were allowed to play into the settlement of the frontiers, with the result that since the war there have been more submerged minorities and more irredentas than before. Add to this the fact that these minorities have become nationally more and more conscious...