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Word: weakens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advised it was unnecessary. The President's secretary, Everett Sanders, explained this year to President Cornelia S. Adair of the National Education Association: "The President has expressed himself fully as to his convictions on the value of education and holds that to rephrase such sentiments tends rather to weaken them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...engage in the competition for the team title than individual title. In a small way this is a furtherance of the "athletics for all" policy pursued by Director of Athletics Bingham. Besides it is felt generally that the necessity of entering a man in the individual play will materially weaken the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. P. BAKER KEEPS RACQUET TITLE | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

...students concerned, but for Harvard University itself, is one which requires delicate handling. Harvard, on the basis of the evidence published on Monday, and other facts, which are commen knowledge among the undergraduates who witnessed the proceedings of the police, appears to be in a strong position. Nothing could weaken that position more, nothing could he more prejudicial to the fortunes of the accused students, than any demonstration whatsoever among undergraduate spectators at the Hearing. The cases are in wholly capably hands, which will function more efficiently without the aid of a gallery. The latter's highest usefulness under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HEARING TOMORROW | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

Since the U. S. is strong in submarines and capital ships and weak in cruisers of all classes, the scrapping of submarines and capital ships - now widely mooted -would greatly weaken the position of the U. S. from a naval point of view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...movies will be chiefly Glacier Park, of the animal life in Yellowstone Park, and of Mt. Rainier. As an innovation, color pictures of the Grand Canyon will be shown. There will also be a Harold Lloyd comedy. "Never Weaken." This is a re-issue of one of the first of the comedies which made Harold Lloyd famous as a comedian. Music for the evening will be furnished by Bowers' Venice-Lido Orchestra, conducted by R. S. Bowers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARROLL AND DUGGAN APPOINTED BY UNION | 3/31/1926 | See Source »

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