Word: lightest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last year, is back in '86, S. S. S. and may be counted on to occupy the position again. Though heavier than he was last spring by fully five pounds, he is not yet corpulent enough to be able to say that he is half as heavy as the lightest man on the crew...
...course, a large majority consider "History, Biography and Travel" far too heavy work for the warm weather, and turn naturally to the novel as the great staple of summer reading. But herein is the difficulty. Of course it is a very easy thing to read the latest and lightest that comes to hand and gain enough from the reading to aid in passing the time. It is true that warm weather is not calculated to inspire a great desire to do anything that resembles work, and that this influence extends to our choice of reading. But if we spend...
...Yale university crew is considerably lighter this year than last, the heaviest man weighing 180 1-2 lbs. and the lightest 161 lbs. The average is a little over...
Weight - Aggregate, 1,047 1/2 lbs.; average, 116 1/3 lbs.; heaviest, 140 lbs.; lightest...
...lightly the vast domain of knowledge has been encroached upon by the books that have been penned. On this account a librarian cannot afford to exercise the right of selection in the reception of matter for his library, as it is impossible for him to know that the lightest and apparently most ephemeral works may not prove of great assistance to some specialist. Among the comparatively recent improvements in our libraries has been the introduction of the catalogue system. Formerly the librarian himself was expected to be a walking catalogue of his own library, and therefore was almost indispensable...