Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficulties of the Scripps-Howard papers and the tightening of the Hearst chain (see below) last week brought observers to the conclusion that U. S. chain journalism had passed its zenith. When stronger papers are no longer able to absorb the losses of the weaker papers, the essential strength of a chain is lost. While still under central management, the motto of chains has become: every paper for itself...
...WRITINGS OF E. M. FORSTER-Rose Macaulay-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Fourteen years after Forster's novel, A Passage To India, his slow-growing reputation has landed him solidly among the best contemporary English novelists. Author Macaulay makes a sensitive analysis of Forster's fiction, a weaker analysis of his critical writing, is both baffled and protective in dealing with his abandonment of fiction for fugitive social and literary criticism...
...near the upper left-hand corner of the picture, making a thin, sketchy white track which is slightly curved owing to a strong magnetic field maintained across the chamber. Its energy is 10,000,000 electron-volts. It passes through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about an inch more (to the right) it comes to a dead stop...
...wrecking automobiles, the same batlike blinking bewilderment, when some thing new appears. When Decline and Fall, published in 1929, won extraordinary acclaim for its 25-year-old author, critics said that Waugh looked like England's strongest claim to a first-rate satirist. As it was followed with weaker tales, perfunctory travel books, a pious biography of Elizabethan Edmund Campion, and as Waugh became more interested in politics, his novels became more like those of an ax-grinding P. G. Wodehouse...
...first time. Despite zookeepers' precautions, Rosie butted her newly-born unmercifully, refused it food. The baby hippo, a 52-lb. male, was moved to a separate cage, fed goat's milk and cream through a hose. But sad-eyed and dejected by his solitude, he grew weaker, in five days' time died of internal injuries...