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Word: weaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared the war had strengthened their faith; 9% said it had weakened it. Last year 26% found their religion stronger; the same percentage found it weaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Faith Without Works | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...greatest thing [about Dr. Sun] was the love he received from Christ -love which sought the emancipation of the weaker races and the welfare of op pressed peoples. This spirit remains with us now and reaches to the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chiang's Testimony | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...tell that to the Harvard Employment Office. A 40 percent increase in the number of employees this year includes a 25 percent rise in feminine help, a 10 percent larger increase in women than in men. Besides their usual posts as waitresses, chambermaids, and office workers, the weaker sex has assumed many positions formerly considered too strenuous for them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMEN TAKE OVER MASCULINE TASKS AS EMPLOYMENT RISES | 3/17/1943 | See Source »

More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: We Must Try to Forgive | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...nations, great & small, must have equal opportunity of development. Those who are stronger and more advanced should consider their strength as a trust to be used to help the weaker nations to fit themselves for full self-government and not to exploit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: We Must Try to Forgive | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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