Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural sciences and that in applying this principle the college should give young men open minds with the habit of independent investigation of religious and political problems. "Is the college going to produce the attitude which shall make us humble in the presence of new facts and make us weigh them carefully?" he asked...
...Judge is beyond criticism and beyond correction? How can the election or appointment of a questionable attorney to a place among the judiciary make him so great and make his decisions so pure and so wise that other rational men are denied the right to consider or criticize or weigh the value of any decree or decision of any Supreme Judge when Supreme Courts are composed of fallible men elected or appointed by fallible electors and fallible executives through fallible partisan and political influence...
...Martians are happier than we are and much more intelligent. First, because their planet is several million years older than ours, and progress is the law; then, because they are less governed by matter, the gravity there being less. A man or woman of 150 pounds would weigh only 50 on Mars. "Besides, as the years are nearly twice as long, the Martian is only 50 when we are 94. Finally, the climate is more equable...
...whose orbit lies just outside that of the earth. Its mass is about one-ninth that of the earth. Its atmosphere has probably less than one-seventh the density of that of the earth. Because of its smaller mass, its gravity is much less and objects on its surface weigh only about one-third as much as the same objects would on the surface of the earth. It has also distinct polar caps, which increase and decrease with seasonable variations. It has also no marked clouds in its atmosphere. It has no surface elevations probably not over...
...Premier Briand, at Nantes, said that election day, May 11, would be an epoch in the annals of the Republic. "It will weigh on the destiny of France for many years accordingly as the Deputies sent to the Chamber are really free men or otherwise. It will also have an effect throughout the world," he asserted. He continued that what: he most dreaded for France was isolation, which had been so disastrous to her in 1815 and 1870. He denied that he was the intransigeant enemy of Premier Poincare and stated that he would have taken the same measures...