Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regarded as one of the biggest in net history. A similar occurrence was in 1921, when Vincent Richards wrested the Rhode Island crown from Tilden, but present concern is greater than it then was because the winner is an invader. The current question on tennis porches is: " Will Tilden weaken in the Davis Cup matches...
...place, the church radicals believing in a more democratic form of church government. Tikhon, according to one report, was poisoned in prison. More recent reports assert that he has made his peace with the Soviet Government, and that he has been released by them to weaken the Russian Church by making a factional fight. Many of the peasants and clergy are behind the old order of things in the patriarchate. They have a strong point of canon law in their favor in the fact that no patriarch can be deposed without the written consent of his peer. This written consent...
...discussion: Mr. Nicholls, member for Zululand: "Here in South Africa we are not a democracy; we are an aristocracy of the white race, established on the continent by force of arms. Women councillors have never been allowed by the natives, and I am sure that we shall greatly weaken our rule in the eyes of the native if we allow women to take part in our councils." General Byron, referring to the argument that women belong to the home and their husbands: "Men who talk like that are usually men who have had everything done for them by women when...
...From this it was deduced that there was at least an outrage on public decency within the meaning of the law, because, to paraphrase the court's language, "it seriously offends the religious beliefs and sensibilities of the adherents of the Christian faith and tends to undermine and weaken religious and moral restraints...
Pertinax, enigmatic political writer for the Echo de Paris adds his voice to the mighty rumblings on the rumpus in the Ruhr. As a supernationalist he favors the policy of the Government, but deprecates their inclination to weaken. "There should not be an evacuation time table nor an evacuation price list...