Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared to Exeter and a powerful Andover team, Milton, smaller and less experienced, should provide weaker opposition than anything encountered so far this year. Following Saturday's event, the Mikkolamen will go into intensive training for the last and biggest meet of the year...
...told a Religious News Service correspondent that Christianity in Japan is much weaker today than it was in 1941; of the 350,000 native Japanese who were Christians before the war, about 100,000 are still church members. One who has stood firm, said the Korean, is the famed Japanese Christian leader, Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). Though it was widely rumored that he supported the government's warmongering, Kagawa actually was thrown in jail nearly two years ago for his open opposition...
...Germans, on the other hand, were weaker. They probably had less than 70 understrength divisions left in the west. At least twelve armored divisions had been whisked away. Some units of the Sixth Panzer Army, which had spearheaded the Ardennes drive, were already identified on the eastern front...
Caumsett Spitfire was dying of pneumonia. He had a 105.5° fever, a racking cough shook his 800-pound frame. Despite huge doses of sulfanilamide and an oxygen tent, he grew steadily weaker. Then Spitfire, a purebred Guernsey bull, achieved a measure of immortality-he became the first animal (outside a laboratory) to be treated with penicillin. WPB, which now has plentiful supplies for all serious cases, let his veterinarian have 2,500,000 units (normal human dose: 1,000,000 units). At week's end, the news from Hardwick, Mass. was better: after a few gigantic shots, Spitfire...
Reportedly much weaker than the all-time great Exeter outfit of two years ago, the present squad should give the Crimson little trouble. Exeter will probably pick up some points in the dashes and definitely in the field events...