Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweeps clean.' A temporary National Prohibition Law as a war measure may be effective. It is urged to stimulate war production in the emergency, and to take temptation from our soldiers, though it is doubtful whether the serious loss to the national revenues, which it will entail, may not outweigh the actual benefits. The immediately useful operation of such a law . . . is not convincing evidence of its ultimate tendency and result. The community must summer and winter it for years...
...advantages of a system under which frank, friendly, and intimate conference between student boards and university officials is substituted for arbitrary and autocratic control, so far outweigh the disadvantages due to the inevitable and sometimes serious mistakes that editors will make, that I am convinced we ought to take the chance courageously for the sake of the great good. Unpleasant incidents are bound to happen, but they are part of the price we must be prepared to pay for what I am sure student editors will ultimately accomplish: the development by the trial and error method of sound and acceptable...
...written perhaps 25 years after this. To supply a background of later events that are not included in her story of David Schuyler's boyhood, Author Hurst quotes, in footnotes, from the imagined diaries of David Schuyler's sister. The advantages of this somewhat televisionary technique outweigh its defects; perhaps in this book a precedent is born for those pseudo-biographers who bend the lives of great men into bizarre and unlikely curlicues...
...must be admitted that there are Spaniards who are one thing in Spain and another across the frontier. But these are feeble-hearted Spaniards, who forget that above political ideas is patriotism, which, born of Spanish glories of the past, should outweigh petty differences. Although it pains me to say it, there are Spaniards who are Spain's worst enemies and who, on leaving Spain, permit foreign influence to make them forget the past glories of the mother country. These weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-memoried persons are averse to recalling Spain's past, which proves her worthy, and point...
...benefits attendant upon the abolition of the present system of scouting appear certainly to outweigh the arguments raised by the Athletic Association in its favor. Scouting is an undoubted expanse and has by its very nature become highly competitive. Even from a strictly technical football point of view it it questionable as to how much a knowledge of the other team's plays improves the calibre of the play. The other objections are negative in quality in that they raise a question as to the power of either college to live up fully to the spirit of the agreement...