Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times . . . Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move...
...fair to add that a cricket ball may be very slightly heavier than a baseball, the rule specifying that it must weigh "not less than 5½ oz. nor more than 5¾," while a base ball must weigh "not less than 5 oz. nor more than 5¼." In circumference, the balls are the same. The utmost possible difference of ¼, to ½ oz. in weight should not, I am reasonably sure-, at any rate not 39 ft. affect and over. Probably, with a cricket ball, slightly heavier yet with no more atmosphere resistance, I might have thrown even...
...duties of the Chancellor are carried out entirely, or almost so, by the Vice Chancellor; but the principal function left to the former is to see that the general interests of the University are looked after, especially regarding its relations with the Government. Political considerations are therefore bound to weigh in the election of candidates for the exalted post; although, in the case of Lord Oxford, political discrimination reflected no credit on the methods of the University...
Whenever a great Frenchman dies, the first thing that seems to be done is to cut out his brain, weigh it and forever after discuss it. They did it to Gambetta. They have done it to Anatole France, the distinguished novelist who died last year (TIME, Oct. 20, BOOKS). The weight of his brain was 1,017 grams, whereas the average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grams. Some scientist declared that it is now established that the profundity of intellectual power is not dependent on physical size. Others contended that, in M. France's case...
...ironies of history that Johnson, who never hesitated to venture the last word upon his literary predecessors and contemporaries, has had to submit to many attempts to weigh, catalogue, and pigeon-hole him by successors, many of whom have been eminently less qualified than he was to apply the formulae of judgment. One of the London debaters, for example, contended that since nobody nowadays reads Johnson's original works, and everybody who makes claim to learning reads Boswell, it follows that Boswell made Johnson...