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Word: weaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same team that fell before the weaker opposition of Cornell by a score of 31 to 27 the night before. Overnight the Crimson changed from an erratic, ragged five to a swift-passing, sure-fire combination that handed Dartmouth its second defeat after the Big Green had romped over such teams as Fordham, Wisconsin, Vermont, and Seton Hall...

Author: By Bill Elser, | Title: Five Upsets Dartmouth, 49-36 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Illionis presented the potentially greatest team in Coach Brown's opinion although the Crimson lost to them by only six points. Detroit and Michigan State were the weaker teams on the schedule, but against them the squad played its poorest ball, losing to Michigan State by 11 points and to Detroit by five...

Author: By Bill Eiser, | Title: Crimson Cage Trip, Although Without Victory, Gave Valuable Experience | 1/8/1942 | See Source »

Despite the sorry record of British exploitation of those with darker skins and weaker weapons, the American Negroes have been loyal supporters of our aid-to-England program. But, remembering a disgraceful record of discrimination in the last war, Negro leaders have kept close watch on internal developments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dark Side of Defense | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

...kiss she gave him was the kiss of a passionate woman of experience, a kiss that would have terrified a weaker man by its implications." From then on she and the hero spend much of their time "on some plane high above all other people in the world in a kind of sulphurous glory, the devastating bond between two purely sensual people who had no sense of sin and knew no shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...airplanes, 22,000 tanks and 27,000 guns. The present supply lines to Russia are not, of a caliber to replace one-tenth of such losses this winter. But if the lines-particularly the Iran-Iraq lines-are not erased, Russia may gradually grow stronger rather than weaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: SUPPLY: Aid on the Wharves | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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