Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scrimmage yesterday was featured by the excellent team work of the forward players, but it was not until ten minutes of scrimmaging that the attack was able to weaken the Melrose defence. Then Owen went past the secondary line and scored the first point on an individual drive...
...close of the first period in the Arena struggle the score stood 1-1 with neither team showing any signs of weakening. The second period opened with the Crimson players still breaking up the Toronto attack time after time in excellent fashion. About the middle of this session, however, the University appeared to weaken momentarily as Carson, Wright, and Hudson, the invading forwards, swept irresistably down upon the Crimson net, tallying four times before the whistle blew. At the very start of the last period Carson shot the final goal and from then on the Crimson defense stiffened and held...
Although the loss of McLeish will weaken the team to some extent, it will not be extremely serious, for Coach Wachter has on hand a large group of substitute forwards, all of whom are but slightly below the standard of the first team...
...maintain his power is by protecting the people in the rewards of their individual efforts. This, too, is the only way production can be maintained, and this he has failed to do. In striving to keep up the production of the industries of the country, and yet not weaken his regime, he has tried nationalization, socialization and communization which last is only a development ad infinitum of the principles of the first two. None of these schemes accomplish the result he had hoped for, and Taylorization--making production 100 percent efficient--served only in raising Russia's output...
...circumstance could be the deluding element in a choice of college. For unless he has violent prejudice for Harvard he may have arrived at the point of neutrality in his estimate of several collages, and then it is the pounding of small factors, perhaps mostly unconsciously, that strengthen or weaken his regard for Harvard. Altho in the actual choosing of a college a student may weigh only the greater elements for or against a school, it often happens that previous to that process the smaller elements have built up an attitude of mind--predilection for a certain college--which...