Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attribute most of this year's decrease to the stricter Departmental requirements imposed last spring. The weaker students are shifting to other fields. In last year's sophomore group, about 20% were Group VI or on unsatisfactory standing. This year we have none in either group," stated McCord...
...soccer team plays at Penn today in what should prove a one-sided contest. At nearly full strength after last Saturday's hard-fought win over Dartmouth, the Crimson will have to guard its tendency to fall down against weaker teams like Penn, which has lost all its Ivy League games...
...sculptural, determined shape, substituting candid and forceful areas for greater refinement of expression. In dealing directly with problems of drawing, via lithography, Barlach's result becomes highly tenuous, unsure, and often completely confused. The same attempt at vitality employed to convey vignettes brutal in subject falters and emerges much weaker in its substitution of the crayon for the chisel or cutter. Faced with a flexibility and opportunity for nuance far greater than that offered in the woodcut process, Barlach's "expressionism" becomes less expressive...
...within the Common Market. Like Britain's Chancellor Harold Macmillan, he is a devoted believer in free trade among all nations. This does not make him an enthusiast for the Common Market. He fears it may become "an island of protectionism in Europe" because of pressure from the weaker economic members, especially France. "Why should I want to throw out controls and to abolish tariffs on a national level only to reintroduce them on an international one and on a much larger scale?" he demands...
Chundrigar promptly pledged Pakistan's continued loyalty to the anti-Communist Baghdad and SEATO Pacts. But few observers in Karachi believed that his rickety coalition could muster the strength to deal with the nation's slide toward economic chaos. A reliable U.S. ally appeared to be getting weaker, and, because of this weakness, less reliable...