Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Will the House allow me," handsomely replied Sir Austen, "to thank the right honorable gentleman for the very handsome way in which he has treated this incident, and to say I hope it will not weaken, but will confirm the friendly relations which should exist between members sitting on opposite sides of the House...
...undernourishment. The word is also used as an adjective, the term "dogied'' meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd find the small weak animals in the rear of the herd as they weaken and drop back so that in their songs in speaking of "roll along or git along, little dogies" they refer to the last of the herd commonly called the "drags" which have to be urged to keep up with the herd...
...Matter calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit or its culture and economy, or that tends to offend religious sentiments...
...suggested to a less conscientious director, but with almost too much dignity. At the end of the picture, when Judge Dolphin is pardoned, Ann says she is out of prison too - the prison of ambition for a selfish success. Tying the story up with this platitude does not seriously weaken what has preceded it - an intelligent study, over-solemn but affecting, of a mature woman at work and in love...
...Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley went to New York for the weekend and into a deep huddle with Boss Flynn. A laconic announcement from Washington that "the President is giving no approval to any local candidate in any state," by no means allayed Boss...