Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word of this did Franklin Roosevelt allow to creep into his public utterances. Business has never been the favorite child in his political family. That place has been, reserved for Business' weaker brother, the underprivileged "one third" of the U. S. population ("ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished"). The President was at pains not to show any signs of changed feelings...
...then there came a time when we knew that Grandma would never see another Spring, never be able to lean out of her sunny window and spit at the children in the park again. She was growing visibly weaker, and began to miss the doctor with the chamber-pot almost every other visit. There was only one bed left in the house. And Grandpa never did come...
...whose trade union had been absorbed by the state-employer, who was terrorized by medieval decrees, who had lost even the illusion of a share in regulating his own life. Certainly not for the revolutionary movement of the world, which was splintered, harassed by the growing strength of fascism, weaker and less hopeful than at the launching of the Plan...
...would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware of this "immediacy" since last November. Since then, said he, the Commissioners had "kept putting off and putting off" the bond offering, while the bond market, incidentally, grew weaker & weaker.' Finally the Advisory Board last month suggested that the offering be announced in the press and by letter to interested bond houses. No announcement was made, no letters sent. What happened was that six days later soft-spoken George Baum of Baum, Bernheimer arranged a meeting with...
...vote was not nearly so unanimous as tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera had hoped and expected, but at latest reports ratification of the new Constitution seemed certain by 560,000 votes to 436,000. The de Valera party made a weaker showing, with virtually complete returns early this week promising its opponents roughly half of the Dail's 138 seats...