Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gain in the world's stock of knowledge in all these cases has been so inestimable as greatly to outweigh the loss of one individual life--and in this lies the explanation of their immortality. Where there is no legacy of knowledge, and no possibility of it, the deliberate death of a scientist becomes little more than pointless suicide--magnificent, but futile and without vision...
...comparison of the other three backs of each team gives Harvard an advantage. Miller, Gehrke, and Hammond outweigh their opponents by the startling amount of 29 pounds a man. That the Crimson backs are not deficient in speed, line plunging, or defense work is evident to those who have seen them in action. In all points but weight, however, Princeton comes close to being an equal in the backfield. Such an overwhelming difference in bulk cannot help but handicap the Tiger...
...ship of the state. The majority of Boston papers had conceded the election to Fuller early this morning, and Curley was so far behind that it seemed impossible for him to win. Although few returns had been heard from in Boston itself, the Republican lead was large enough to outweigh the majority that Curley is expected to receive in the city...
...weight averages of the two lines, which show Harvard to have an advantage of one pound per man, do not tell the whole tale. On paper the central portion of the Middlebury line shows a distinct weakness. The Crimson center and guards outweigh their opponents nine pounds a man. To counteract this advantage, Potter, McLaughlin, Brosowsky, Ehlert, Rigelman, and Mullen all faced Harvard last year...
...that in discussing a matter of such importance our political orators seek to present facts in their proper and correct relation to the welfare of the people. Common sense and fairness alike revolt at the suggestion that these individual derelictions, which the Administration has set out to punish, should outweigh, in the judgment of American citizens, the honesty and the accomplishments of the most successful business administration of Government our people have ever...