Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the first time that Navy wrestlers have invaded Cambridge, although it is the seventh Harvard-Navy meet. The six previous meets have all been at Annapolis, and have all been won by the Sailors. And there is no indication that this year's Navy delegation is any weaker than its predecessors...
Tchaikowski's Second Symphony was more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough and commonplace. . . . pompous and trivial . . . neither good nor bad." It is fun to listen to, and that is more than can be said for a good deal of the stuff that is perpetrated in concert-halls today...
...Ithacans are bringing a weaker team than the one that dropped two games to the Crimson last year. Jim Bennett, their high scoring forward, Howle Dunbar, their towering center, and jovial Ken Jolly will be missing from the starting lineup. But even ample replacements to give them a without these men, the Big Red has pre-game edge in the betting odds...
...cent of the total number who voted checked the statement which read "Hitler must go even if we have to fight." 49.3 per cent checked, "British victory is essential to our national defense." Leaving out duplications we find that slightly over 60 per cent took at least the weaker of the two positions. If you take either of these stands, you necessarily accept the policy of all necessary...
...Fayyúm. With a brisk step the Minister entered the King's train at Cairo. Just as it was about to pull out he collapsed. Jabbering with excitement, Egyptians carried Saleh Younes Pasha out of the royal train to a station sitting room, where he rapidly grew weaker and died...