Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bribery--it is legal, of course; but none the less the arrangement has the ear-marks of bribery--on the part of the Democratic Party to catch the votes of the needy. The resources of the United States Treasury are sufficient to make the purse of many a voter heavier. And who would expect someone receiving money from the HOLC, CWA, or any other alphabetical combination to vote against a New Dealer. There is something quite doubtful in the ethics of allowing those on Federal relief to vote in Federal elections. Of course Mr. Roosevelt would no more point this...
According to the coaches, the Harvard team compared favorably with last year's outfit, which eked out a 6-6 tie with the Exeter team. Though this year's team is slightly heavier than last, it lacks the experience which enabled its predecessor to romp through Yale and Dartmouth...
...right.Trying to save a goal, West's Back, Elmer Boeseke, hit a shot toward the sideboards which caromed off his pony's fore foot straight through his own goal for the first score. The equality between young, lively Easterners and heavier, more experienced Westerners grew increasingly apparent thereafter but the enormity of Elmer Boeseke's mistake was revealed when the game was over. The Scoreboard on the clubhouse showed that the side which had made fewer goals had paradoxically won game & series, East 14, West...
...center of the Crimson team in 1932, was so rough on shoes that he found that the speed shoes were left in tatters at the end of the second half. He decided to concede the speed to the sturdiness of the practice shoes and thereafter were only he heavier shoes...
...Meadow Brook, L. I. last week, the East's main consolation for producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith and Aidan Roark, with a brilliant unexpected victory...