Word: weakening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Dickinson Duffield (Prudential Life Insurance Co.)-"It's difficult for Congress alone to cure things. . . . Modification of debtor-creditor contracts often are needed and justified but to destroy the obligations attaching to such contracts will weaken the entire basis of our system. A 70? dollar wouldn't be so bad if businessmen were sure that it would be maintained as a 70? dollar...
...essential weaknesses are strongly revealed. It leads to excessive ballyhoo, in the attempt to raise revenue; it has put all the stress on gate receipts, the most uncertain variable in the whole financial procedure; and most important, there are definite indications that that source of revenue will continue to weaken, an interest wanes in he sport. The proposed fixed fee to be paid by all undergraduates on the term bills is a step to a firmer athletic financial policy, but it can hardly be expected to finance even a tenth of the whole program. If the University is to continue...
...investigation along this line led him to utilize hydrogen for welding metals together. When hydrogen is squirted through a tungsten arc light, hydrogen molecules explode into hydrogen atoms. The hot stream of atomic hydrogen can weld pieces of steel together and simultaneously drive away the oxygen and nitrogen which weaken ordinary steel welds...
...great life whether you weaken or not," declared O. O. McIntyre, who writes "New York Day by Day" for the Hearst papers, as he commented on his column writing to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "I have a weakness and admiration for black and white checked suits, and my office is furnished completely in chromium-plated furniture...
While Mr. Coe has an excellent grasp of the field of education today, he is lamentably weak in his treatment of governmental theory. Belief in more democracy as a cure for the evils of democracy, and faith in a rather out-worn liberalism tend to weaken greatly the value of his constructive suggestions. And again, he fails to recognize that one generation is bound to try to teach the next the existing ideals and prejudices. People will not support schools which teach what are held to be subversive doctrines...