Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third speaker, Roger Baldwin, onetime conscientious objector, found the peace movement weak in colleges and weaker outside, although worthy in its aims. Lack of coherence and organization were two chief difficulties. More important, however, he declared, was the eternal division of the rich and poor, the haves and the havenots. Advancing this conception of history one stage farther, he declared that until socialism and communism dominated the world and the League, permanent peace could not be assured...
...time have opponents of Roosevelt been weaker than when they have attempted to arouse popular emotions by an appeal to the sanctity of the Constitution. Throughout the past four years blatant cartoonists have shown Roosevelt, Frankfurter, and the little hot dogs tearing the venerable document into shreds with fiendish delight. Leading editorials have stigmatized Roosevelt as trying to undermine the entire American structure of society by his measures which, they claim, reduce the constitution to a mere shred of out-worn parchment...
With last year's victory to defend, the Crimson ten sent down to New Jersey will be a much weaker combination than that which toed the mark on the home course in 1934; while the Orange and Black will line up an unusually powerful contingent. Furthermore, Harvard harriers, used to racing along the level banks of the Charles River, have always found the hilly terrain of Princeton to be a decided disadvantage...
...trooper. Ward got out his shotgun, loaded it, returned to the window. The naked man was still chopping at the door. Ward fired once over his head, the second time into the madman's body. On the way to the hospital, the man, still violent, shouted "Fitzgerald." Weaker he whispered "Fitzgerald" once more before he died. He was Morris Fitzgerald, 36, sometime convict and escaped inmate of an insane asylum, suffering with dementia praecox...
...into Arkansas next year and fight his reelection. There is veiled talk of other candidates : politics being as sectional as they are in the U. S., the more a politician changes from a big man at home to a big man in the country at large, the weaker grows his political backing at home. Thus from Senator Robinson's standpoint Little Rock is no longer Gibraltar. If he wants to serve another six years in the Senate his advisers tell him he will probably have to take off his cutaway in 1936 and hump himself through a lively campaign...