Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...makes non-dendritic (homogeneous) steel. In a cast ingot the interior pressure created by the more rapidly cooling exterior forms segregated crystalline structures which may weaken the steel...
...education of the children born under the system to a belief in the worth of the existing social structure. The biggest stumbling block to the spread of Communism in the United States is the control of the schools by those of capitalist persuasion. Any situation which tends to weaken the education system and to expose it to revolutionary ideas should, from the standpoint of the capitalist, be immediately remedied. Chicago may choose between loss of propagandist power and paying its teachers...
...uncommon for birds to do this, and they will weaken and eventually kill themselves by it. We have had a cedar waxwing and a California towhee beat against our windows in this way, and in each case stopped it promptly by placing a piece of cardboard over the part of the pane where the bird saw its image Otherwise the bird will keep the struggle up until it drops. My brother-in-law tells me he sometimes finds blood on the sill at his country home in Los Gatos where towhees have beaten themselves insensible during his absence...
...functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
Committee personnel will depend upon which Senators President Roosevelt picks for his Cabinet. Virginia's Glass having refused the Treasury, he will remain. The drafting of Montana's Walsh, and Tennessee's Hull would not only weaken the Democratic leadership on the floor but also strip the committees on Judiciary and Finance, respectively, of their strongest members...