Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year, after his 87th birthday, he began growing steadily weaker. One day last week he fell into a deep coma and his only son was called to his bedside. A few hours later President Harry Truman announced the death of John Joseph ("Black Jack"*) Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World...
Except in rare cases, this "spirit of learning" seems to be a very weak spirit in Harvard College today. It is probably no weaker than in other American colleges; but this is a fact that magnifies rather than minimizes the problem. If Harvard, as a leading liberal arts college, cannot inspire its undergraduates with the desire to learn, then liberal education would appear to have no place in American life. Surely, unless some way is discovered to light the desire to learn, we will soon no longer be able to assert, along with William James, that students do not come...
There are those (myself included) who hold that the "iron curtain" hides great weakness. But what many of them fail to realize is that Hitler's Germany of the "phony war" period likewise was far weaker than most believed...
With an unceasing scoring barrage which netted a total of 28 tallies, Freshmen and Junior Varsity puck teams both pounded weaker opponents in Arena scrimmages yesterday which saw five hat tricks performed in the course of the afternoon...
Herald-Tribune scribe Al Laney, after viewing the first B. C. scrimmage, ventured that the Crimson "figures to be a better team, even with a weaker line, but its record may not look so good (as last year) at the end of the season." Laney singled out for special mention the fact that "some passers have finally turned up in the vicinity of the Square," citing the work of Kenary, Gannon and Roche as particularly promising...