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Word: weakly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games already and has taken as many defeats. The first two of these setbacks came at the hands of two of New England's strongest hockey aggregations, the University Club and Yale, but the third was a 3 to 1 drubbing by M. I. T. The Terriers are admittedly weak at goal and this has been their handicap in all three games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FAVORED IN HOCKEY OPENER WITH B. U. TONIGHT | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...Living Corpse. In Moscow, toward the end of the 19th Century, it was a gypsy singer, her grave gypsy songs, and the sultry, southern wines which drew Fedya Protasov away from his home and a sweet wife who tried helplessly to forget him. But Fedya, despite his weak lips and wanton tastes, was not the total wreckage that he seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...buying men, the importance of the single personal command, the importance of time." He was the biggest big executive of his day, a man who spent his life bringing order on a large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Majestic--"Woof Woof". A rather weak romantic musical comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...would do any child's heart good. The adult portions of the play are composed of slightly bored dialogue in Act I, a not too effective suggestion of strain in the first scene of Act III, and, in the final scene, a modicum of action that moves to the weak-kneed close...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: "SUCCESS" ACCEPTABLY PRESENTED | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

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