Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circulation, later added the other women's magazines. Today the only traces of a man's world around Street & Smith are Astounding Science Fiction and two slicks, Air Trails Pictorial and Pic Sports Quarterly. Grammer says they are thriving. But in case they should ever weaken, S. & S. would be, as usual, ready with its six-shooter...
...Centers of Power. Clearly Russia and her minions were girded for a powerful polemical battle-not to stop the North Atlantic pact, since it was now an accomplished fact, but to weaken and delay its implementation, hinder its extension, sow distrust of its intentions. Beyond polemics there would be further pressure -among other places, in Eastern Germany, where the Russian occupation authority last week pushed the formation of a Communist state; in the Far East, where the victorious Chinese Communists denounced the North Atlantic pact, and declared that they would stand solidly behind Moscow in any future...
Next day the DuPont Co., maker of nylon, issued a somewhat huffy communique. Strong acids "degrade" (weaken) nylon yarn, and soot particles sometimes contain enough sulphuric acid to do the deed. But it does not happen often. Except to a few uncommon chemicals, DuPont insisted, nylon is at least as resistant as silk, rayon or cotton...
Specialized advisory groups, such as the Dean's Office and the Office of Tests Bender says, must not take over all the problems of advising. To abandon the responsibility of the Faculty to advise "would seriously weaken Harvard education," he says, adding that a special committee is studying the whole problem...
...Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...