Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made with a freedom, vigor and intelligence which are delightful. Mr. Kendal plays with much shrewdness, and brings out the comedy situations with a freshness and brightness which are irresistible. These charming actors will be seen this evening and in Wednesday's matinee in "Impulse;" Wednesday evening in the "Weaker Sex;" Thursday evening in "A Scrap of Paper;" Friday evening and Saturday matinee in "A White Lie;" Saturday evening in "The Iron Master...
...part of all to play an aggressive game. Last year the winning elevens, in almost every case, shut out their opponents, and Yale did not have a point scored against her during the entire season; but this year the stronger teams have not been able to prevent the weaker ones from scoring, and the following schedule of points scored shows that all the teams scored in at least two games...
...Such a system is entirely foreign to the theory of the constitution. Our whole system of checks and balances would be destroyed. (a) The executive would be merged in the legislative. (b) The weaker of the Houses of Congress would succumb to the stronger. (c) The equal representation of the states will be lost-Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, February, 1886; Von Holst Constitutional Law S25 S26; Hare Constitution al Law, pp. 175-180; Nation, 28-243; Pomeroy Constitutional...
...varsity nine and the professional Lowell team. So few spectators attended the game that there was some excuse for the utter lack of life which the Harvard team showed. The fielding was by no means clean, and all the infielders made very bad errors. The batting was even weaker, while the coaching was contemptible. At no point in the game did the home team show the slightest energy. In the Yale game on Thursday, Harvard will not have the slightest chance if she plays a game anything similar to that of yesterday. The men on the coaching lines seemed...
...Yale freshmen made fewer errors than Harvard, but the hitting was weaker. Jones pitched a steady game up to the tenth inning when he gave two men bases on balls. His infield support, however, in that inning was not good, the second baseman making two costly errors...