Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preliminary report to the Freshmen Committee on Houses Dean Hanford last week concluded in regard to the plan for associate memberships in the Houses that "the disadvantages of the proposal . . . seem to outweigh the advantages of the proposal when the best interests of the House plan are given proper consideration...
Senator Vandenberg produced letters from numerous shipping companies declaring that, even if the canal is free, they will not use it because the expense and trouble of employing canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that...
...casting the rest of the picture, Ben Schulberg apparently looked for foreign types rather than for established picture names. Whether the wisdom of the selections will outweigh the lack of draw names is something only the box-office can decide. A departure was the casting of Marian Marsh in the principal feminine role. She is an ethereal little thing and provides the only element appealing strongly to the emotions of the audience. Under Joe's sympathetic direction she gives a beautiful performance...
...that financial support should not be withdrawn from any of the twelve minor sports; that the record of each of these sports warrants the financial support of the H.A.A. in the future; that the reasons for the continuation of each of these sports on a strictly formal basis far outweigh the reasons for their abolition as stated specifically in the reports; and that the abolition of any of these sports would render the athletic program at Harvard inadequate...
...Crimson Yardlings will outweigh the Academy team with an average of 180 pounds in the line and 175 in the backfield. The schoolboys have one victory to their credit this season, a 25-0 win over Lawrence Academy. They are heavy and fast, many of them having several years of prep school experience...