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Word: weaknesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's second line failed to score at all; the first and third lines split the honors. Each Crimson defense combination showed one strong man and one weak one--but Coach Chase couldn't very well put both Greeley and Al Key in one team if he expected to play a full game...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: BC Tops Hockey Team, 9-4 | 12/16/1948 | See Source »

Twelve years age, Hitler grabbed the Ruhr. Without it, the German war machine would have been weak, and the incredibly successful conquests of 1939 to 1942 impossible. But with the most concentrated industrial region in the world working for him, Hitler conquered Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reversal On The Ruhr | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Alexander Dumas would smile at his characters in this gem: they are all as he would have them, exceptionally good or horrendously evil. Vincent Price as Richelieu is oily and sinister, with just a dash of greed. Frank Morgan as Louis XIII is weak and vacillating. The heroine is June Allyson, who is totally incapable of portraying anyone not pure and naive. Lana Turner plays Lady de Winter, the cruel, unscrupulous femme fatale; she is grotesquely miscast, but retains a certain innate charm...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Three Musketeers | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

...weak to creep into the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cassandra from the Garden | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...direction seemed a little weak on opening night but the director, Gerald Savory, had been somewhat hampered by what looks like an unnecessarily small set for Acts One and Two. Things run smoother in Act Three. The play has not been...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

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