Word: weaknesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line, Yale is unspectacular. There are no apparent weak spots, but neither is there any one position where an Eli really shines. The ends were pretty well taken care of by Princeton's vicious blocking last week; the guards and tackles gauged up to stop Tiger plays but seemed weak when they had single shots at runners
...courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer's death...
...rest of the Advocate--and it is, unfortunately, the really literary part--is of negligible value. A poorly developed story by Aristides Stavrolakes, "Sportsmen," contains a certain amount of realistic dialogue, stemming from Hemingway, between a weak personality who owns a barbershop and a couple of sinister characters who want to but it from him as dishonestly as possible...
...Eighth Day." Apparently Dean has had done with introspection and now contents himself with satiring man's stupidities and vanities. At any rate were seldom encounter ourselves in the cartoons. It seems that the trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...
This on the unimpeachable word of Henry Lamar, who had watched his men falter through two opening losses and a win over a weak Exeter squad without ever seeming to be working together...