Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andover the Yardlings rate as the favorites on the basis of past records. With a new coach this year, the Andover team recently dropped a game to the traditionally weak Governor Dummer squad...
...exclusion for what amounts to the rest of the season gives Harlow a very real problem at center. The coach said yesterday that he considers breaking in an inexperienced man at this position out of the question. "I can't use Rodis there," he added, "with the team so weak in tackles...
Mothers were almost too weak to care for their babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
Bigger Game. Viruses are proteins, and are therefore made chiefly of amino acids. By delicate chemical methods, Stanley's group knocked out or added amino acids. Vigorous viruses became weak. Mild viruses turned into virulent killers. In one case a transformed virus transmitted its new character to its offspring. For the first time, man had succeeded in changing a virus' heredity...
Fort Pitt is a stockaded outpost, threatened by Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...