Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coach Dick Meryman started workouts last February with a large group of strong prospects, but injuries and probation have left the team in a weaker state than the original material would have indicated...
Exhausted by the brilliant play of the Royal Navy team the previous day and by manifold strength-sapping social obligations, the Rugby Club was unable to summon enough power on Palm Sunday morning to gain the needed win over an admittedly weaker Tiger squad...
...present bills show some of the influence of this lobby. The House bill extends controls for 15 months, guarantees the ever-mentioned "fair-return," and gives state and city governments local jurisdiction on lifting ceilings completely. The Senate bill is even weaker, providing for an automatic 15 percent jump in rents while it is in effect...
...churches," declared Dulles, "have played a notable part in changing the attitudes of our people . . ." It was Christian leadership, he said, that committed the U.S. to helping weaker nations (e.g., the Marshall Plan), while it permitted a big stick to enforce a just and Christian peace in the world. "And if, over the past three years, our nation has dealt with the Soviet Union on a basis that has been firm but that, for the most part, avoided provocation, it is largely because our Christian people have, on the one hand, seen the danger lying behind beguiling Communist propaganda...
Harvard's hockey team trimmed Williams, 5 to 3 Saturday, but for the second game in a row the Crimson had to come from behind a first period deficit to beat a weaker rival...