Word: weaker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed. And then again in such cases as the second team fullback berth, few would argue that the team would be a great deal weaker with Holy Cross's stalwart leader Stewart Clancy filling...
...Rene Peroy has a difficult task before him. Peroy was a noted amateur and leading member of the New York Fencer's Club before succeeding J. S. Danguy as University mentor this year. He now faces the task of whipping into shape a team considerably less experienced and probably weaker than that of last year...
...urged birth-control knowledge for uneducated people. Professor Everett Dudley Plass of the University of Iowa would have the state do the educating. Said he: "Only one argument exists against teaching birth control and that is the possibility of its leading to sexual promiscuity. But that argument grows weaker daily, for men and women are daily growing more promiscuous anyway." The American Birth Control League has called for a first national conference on birth control, "to consider its social, moral, religious, economic and legal aspects." Place: Manhattan. Time...
...Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength is 30,000 lbs. per sq. in. Name given the new material is konel...
Under changed conditions of University life debating has necessarily lost much of its former prestige. With the passing of the Debating Union it is clear that undergraduate interest in debating has grown noticably weaker. While debating at Harvard must content itself with a limited field, it is all the more desirable that good management make the most of the remaining opportunities...