Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Merriam, Pennsylvania's veteran coach, figures that this team will be stronger in the back stroke and distance swims, a little better in the breast stroke and slightly weaker in the sprints and dive...
...Cashman of the American: "Harvard by two touchdowns. I've watched Harvard closely all year and they've showed definite improvements with each start. The Sophomores in the Harvard lineup have learned more with each game. Yale, on the other hand, has become weaker as the season progressed...
...Users of alcohol produce better babies than teetotalers (alcohol kills the weaker sperm...
...says they derided the British Navy's stupidity for not attempting it. It is not likely that such sentiments prevail now in Berlin or that a British naval attempt at the Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march against Berlin, even if a shallow-draft armada should push through. Besides submarines, the Gate-crashers would now have to cope with large minefields at the outlet...
...good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...