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Word: weaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cornell can manage to tie or defeat the Quakers, the Crimson will win an undisputed championship in this first year of Ivy League soccer play. But this seems unlikely, since Cornell is a considerably weaker team and lacks depth. The Big Red has improved in recent weeks, however, and lost only 1 to 0 to Yale in its last previous Ivy game...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Penn-Cornell Soccer Snowed Out; Deciding Game Set for Thursday | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Each state, no matter how small, is entitled to recognition of its independence and equality under international law. The smallest state should have the same confidence as the largest that its sovereignty and territorial integrity will be respected. We reject the Communist philosophy that stronger states should take from weaker states lying within the orbit of their power. Stronger states should contribute to the development and welfare of less-developed states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Good Partners | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Dartmouth line, however, never yet strong this season, may well be even weaker. Both starting guards, Stan Klapper and John Donnelly are expected to be side-lined for the entire game, and the other regular ends are all suffering from various hand injuries...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Crimson Favored to Beat Winless Dartmouth | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

During his 33 months as a prisoner, Gallagher testified, he was not a murderer, but a dispenser of mercy to the weaker prisoners; he said that he had not informed upon his fellow prisoners, nor accepted rewards from the Communists. Gallagher admitted that he had signed a Communist peace petition urging U.S. troops to stop the "useless war," that he sometimes took the Communist side in camp discussion groups, that he had strung up a sick fellow prisoner from a peg; his purpose, said Gallagher, was to give the sick patient exercise. "I did not have too many friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Guilty | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...which gave out the most information, learned much at Geneva, especially about the Russians, who showed up as strong on theory, weaker on practical application. Calling for "regular" meetings in the future, the Russians announced they would supply their allies with the tools of peacetime atomics, including a 6,500 kw. reactor for Red China. The conference chairman, India's Homi Bhabha, was happiest about the lack of politics interfering with science. "There should be another conference," he said. "But let's wait three years. This will give time for some more really interesting information to accumulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Ending | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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