Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dominate and have their will over the weaker." Some specific accusations of code evils: Most hotels and many contractors use Grade B, slightly damaged plumbing fixtures, a large part of small manufacturers' output. Under the plumbing fixture code, dominated by three leading companies. Grade B products can now be sold only for export. Smalltime lead-pencil makers generally retail their product under 5?. Most popular color for lead-pencils is yellow. Big pencil manufacturers inserted in their code a provision prohibiting the manufacture of yellow pencils to be sold below 5?. All coffee roasters insert "filler" into their packaged...
...months and in the hospital for four weeks. She was the third Orange woman to die of the dread disease within a year. Buffalo, N. Y.-Failing to rally after a second blood transfusion, the condition of Mary Lobora-Daldan, 3, who is suffering from leucemia, grew steadily weaker today. These press dispatches of the last four weeks and many another like them concerned the most mysterious of blood diseases. White blood cells, policemen of the body, inexplicably multiply and crowd out of the arterial highways vitally necessary red service cells. Leucemia always makes prolonged news for it kills inexorably...
...engaged in training teachers in various branches of learning shall, first of all, be competent scholars in these fields; (c) the abandonment of the conception of a distinct 'science of education' and the reunion of education with the great streams of human knowledge, thought and aspiration. . . . The weaker normal schools and teachers' colleges should be closed, while the remainder should become centers, not of pedagogy as traditionally conceived, but of knowledge and thought." Besides this body blow, the Commission took a savage poke at modern pedagogy's right arm, the intelligence test. What test scores reveal...
...days wore on Professor Pereda received more gifts-images of the Virgin, jigsaw puzzles. A former woman student, now a teacher, gave him (at his request) a manicure, and one patriotic young admirer took an oath not to shave until Puerto Rico was independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed...
Cornell began the season as one of the weaker teams, suffering four consecutive defeats. But the Red and White turned the tables, won its last two events, and now stands fourth in the league. Saturday, the Ithacans edged Columbia, 30-29, and Monday they downed Yale...