Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to chuckle at big, handsome, healthy and husky Gerhard's chagrin, finding he has been mistaken for one of the weaker...
They were all glad to leave Noirmoutier but they found Ile d'Yeu worse: their quarters were underground, insanitary, overcrowded, their bodies weaker, their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back...
...prices on some lines went up as much as 60%. The Furniture Code, which went into effect last December, helped stabilize prices by forbidding sales below cost. But the boom of last summer and autumn has died away, and the seasonal upswing stimulated by June weddings has been weaker this year than last. A tremor ran through the industry fortnight ago on reports from Chicago, hastily denied, that some manufacturers were about to cut prices...
...made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph over weaker minds. While still only War Minister he reorganized the Army and made it his own by insuring regular pay for the first time in living Persian memory. To do this he had to detach a section of the Ministry of Finance and incorporate it into the Ministry of War. That feat showed...
...bankers of his native State a piece of his mind about their business. As chairman of the State Banking Review Board and onetime president of the Bank of Wisconsin (absorbed by Wisconsin Bankshares Corp.), he knew Wisconsin banks at first hand, had long championed legislation to bolster the weaker ones. When he rose to speak, the president of the State Banking Association had just finished damning RFC's practice of buying bank stock as "positively pernicious...