Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities a certain proportion of the men become restive under the lecture system. This feeling is certain to grow and unless the colleges respond to it in some way their hold on the more intelligent men in America and on the intellectual life of the country is sure to weaken. Their already feeble resistance to technical education will become a rout. The trouble with the lecture system is that it keeps a chap at 21 or 22 working on his old prep school subjects of Literature, Mathematics, History and Natural Science in the prep school way. Daily assignments are designed...
Harrison pitched a steady game for the University until the first of the ninth when he began to weaken. After he had walked the first two men up Coach Slattery sent in Goode to fill the gap. Beside allowing only four hits and striking out seven men in the first eight sessions Harrison pulled his team out of two dangerous holes...
Winton, the rangy Princeton first baseman, will be out of the game today because of an attack of appendicitis. His loss will greatly weaken the Tigers, for he was not only the steadiest man in an infield that is subject to streaks of wildness, but he has also been very effective as fifth man on the batting order...
...victory which the Poles have won will probably give them an invaluable feeling of national solidarity. But it is to be hoped that they will not weaken their country and their cause by prolonging the fight one single minute. What they most need is to set to work; to repair the damages of war and to apply themselves in peaceful pursuits. It would be particularly unfortunate if they were to provoke just grievances by seizing territory not rightfully theirs. Poland must now strive for that mutual amity with surrounding states by which alone a worth-while peace is assured...