Word: weaker
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...Puritan ties grew weaker and weaker, Unitarianism appeared on the New England landscape, and the Divinity School was organized in 1816. Its constitution prescribes that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required either of the Students or Professors or Instructors...
...workers, contrasted with the satisfactory contracts concluded in the steel and automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
Some of Burnham's specific suggestions for carrying out a positive policy are much weaker than his over-all analysis. He, like Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), proposes the suppression of the Communist Party, without explaining how that could be done effectively...
Although the Cornell grapplers lost to Army by a larger margin than the Crimson did, the match at Ithaca shapes up as a close one, because the stronger Cornell classes coincide with the weaker ones of the Varsity. The fate of the lightweights will probably decide the contest...
Heavyweight Pete Fuller, who easily disposed of his Princeton opponent, Alex Royd, Saturday by pinning him in both the second and third periods, will be at his usual spot, facing one of the apparently weaker Bruin classes. Dan Ray will probably have the toughest Bruin, a former Rhode Island State interscholastic champ, pitted against him, while at 136 Frank Trinkle of the Crimson is scheduled to run into a good wrestler in the person of Jack Micheal, a former Hill School captain...