Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counted in with the regular run of them. Who Says Old! (Sears) has a cheeriness, a salutary tang that is particularly appropriate to the time of Yale logs and winter evens. If you wish to have a little excitement to touch off your evening's reading of the heavier volumes, a few hours will be entertainingly spent with Congo Jake in the winds of Africa. A. C. Collondon (Clande Kendall, $2.75) takes you through some tight squeezes that will make you wish the fire would stop throwing shadows on the wall...
...That victorious team in 1901 averaged close to 200 pounds and every team we played was that heavy or heavier," continued Mr. Campbell. "Back in those days it was just a question of which was the strongest team. In other words, it was merely a battle of lines, back and forth with five yards to be gained in three rushes. A fellow didn't need brains to play...
Although the description of these heavier Chemistry and Biology courses in the catalogue almost invariably trail off into a coy "six hours of laboratory work per week required", many instructors and almost all students will testify that this is an absurd statement. It is conclusively established that these courses require as much time as German B and French B; there are only two roads now open to the Departments involved. They may, on the one hand, grant two course credit for their courses: this, of course, will require other adjustments; requirements for concentration will have to be altered to correspond...
...crossed the line standing up. St. Mary's 13, Fordham 6. Systems, If Knute Rockne could return to earth, he might not recognize all the local variations which his system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield; the seven-man line on defense. On offense, almost every line...
...leaning far in at the turns, wheedling his mount in a squeaky, nervous treble. He uses whip and spurs less than most young jockeys who are less canny with their hands, but he can ride a "strong" finish when he needs to. Only 4½ ft. tall, not much heavier than 92 to 95 Ib. on a jockey-room scales, pee-wee Jack Westrope may well satisfy his remaining ambition-to win the Kentucky Derby- before he needs to face a jockey's greatest problem, weight...