Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chill characteristic of malaria occurs when swarms of ripened germs burst out of dying red cells and scatter their spores throughout the blood. After the chill comes fever. This occurs while the spores settle into uninfected red cells. Many people, unable to stand repeated shocks of chills and fevers, weaken...
...Committee does not feel that these changes would weaken Harvard's educational machinery, but feel, on the other hand, that the best students would be given more freedom and incentive to do excellent work. From the tutor's standpoint, there would be more time for research and writing, the promotion of younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and the advancement of the best tutors would encourage the rest...
...first magnitude, Minnesota had gained by rushes the astounding total of 2,418 yd., while holding its opponents to a paltry 533. But not even that yardage figure gave a full-sized picture of Coach Bernie Bierman's jerseyed juggernaut. To prevent overconfidence and to dishearten and weaken its rivals, Minnesota has adopted the stratagem of giving the ball to its opponents during the first half by consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line drives, cunning spinners, adroit passes. This style of play calls for teamwork...
...Biding their time while they contrive the collapse of Christian society, the Elders plan to: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration of gold in the hands of the Jews...
...over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister's eyes began to weaken. His fashionable Physician Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford. first attended to a minor ailment, a hard, pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed...