Word: weakly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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America has made up its mind about some things in the present war, but is still undecided about others. It approves aid to Britain, and will support any move to increase this aid, so long as it does not leave us dangerously weak. But it still has one great reservation--it has not decided as yet, that it is willing to go to the length of war to save Britain. President Conant said last night that unless we decide this question now, and decide it in the affirmative, the Axis powers will surely win: "The opinion is growing among qualified...
...funny shaped ball and takes peculiar bounces. And to quote a referee for a change, Austen Lake says that "there is an emotional ebb and flow in the nervous system of football kids which sometimes washes out the energy of the mighty and floods the forces of the weak. Speaking of referees, what did you think of Red Friesell and his third consecutive stormy week? I certainly hope the poor fellow isn't a bundle of nerves by now and makes a hash out of the Harvard-Yale game...
...turn up in Berlin last spring, often to be hurled tauntingly back at Great Britain by renegade Broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Scotland Yard agents suspected a leak and tapped the Embassy telephone wires. Within a short time they had heard enough. They arrested Tyler G. Kent, a weak-chinned, 29-year-old American code clerk, who went to London from the U. S. Moscow Embassy at the beginning of the war. In his apartment they found six suitcases full of stolen or copied Embassy documents, among them a letter from Prime Minister Churchill to President Roosevelt which...
With the collaboration of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, a trap was set in the Embassy with a Scotland Yard agent replacing Clerk Kent and taking all his telephone calls. Into it fell an attractive, 37-year-old White Russian emigree, Anna Wolkov. Weak Clerk Kent, in love with Anna Wolkov and fanatically antiSemitic, had been persuaded to pass on information and documents to his inamorata, who then was suspected of sending them across the Irish Sea to the German Legation in Dublin...
...field has been covered all week, and word comes from Tom Stephenson, Southern Sage of the H.A.A. that ticket sales in Providence have been brisk, balancing up for the rather weak demand in Boston and vicinity. About 20,000 people are expected to attend...