Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They hid fair to come through. They have shown consistent playing all during the season, winning four and tieing one, and that on a muddy field against a heavier Eliot team...
...initial victory was ever the Northeastern Freshmen who were licked 26-7 in a Harvard romp. Today, however, the going will be heavier. Holy Cross has a reputation for sending out teams that can be counted on to provide an hour's work for any Harvard eleven...
...Leverett-Eliot game was a drab affair, neither team being able to get its offense functioning. Eliot had the heavier team but the scrappiness of the Leverett eleven held them in cheek...
...newshawks and cameramen who met Mooney at the San Francisco jail found him, as always, cocked and primed to talk about his "martyrdom." He expected no redress from the California Court, he said, but had great hopes for a final victory before the U. S. Supreme Court. Twenty pounds heavier than when he left San Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears...
...rush of final business grew heavier, the time came for Franklin Roosevelt to say farewell to his best friend and fondest admirer, Louis McHenry Howe. Secretary Howe was sufficiently recovered not to need his oxygen tent any longer, but is still too ill to be bothered with serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator...