Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visitors' line will outweigh the Crimson forwards by several pounds. The two ends weigh 200 and 185 pounds respectively. Gunn, who at center is perhaps the outstanding player in the line, weighs 195 pounds and is six feet six inches tall. All seven linesmen are well over six feet in height...
Those who read the Lampoon regularly have long grown accustomed to a dull Freshman Number at the beginning of the year. For apparently summer vacations do not lighten the touch of the Muses; and even the Bacchanalian revels of those editors who re-create abroad seem to weigh heavily upon a jester's pen. This being so, the quantity of amusing verses, apothgems and drawings in the current number augurs well for a good year of the magazine. Several pages, it is true, are obviously filled with stuffing--with the tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably...
...certainly is, unless many individuals have undergone an unusual metamorphosis--too much cannot be said against it. Be it Bolshevism, Pacifism, Politics or Pruning-hooks, it is injurious, and should go. One of the most important features in the acquisition of an education is the ability to think and weigh decisions for oneself; given both sides of a case, the final judgment, unless it comes from the student himself, is worthless both to the student and as a judgment. Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their...
...Industry needs the college man who can treat it with the impartial judgement of the scientist, who weighs all the facts which he can obtain, and then draws his conclusions. Prejudice is extremely hard to overcome, but the man who wants to go into industry must be big enough to cast prejudice aside, and weigh all the facts impartially. The man who can be truly open-minded can really accomplish something inn industry, but the one who cannot do this can contribute nothing to industrial progress...
...contestants in tomorrow's matches must weigh in at noon. Only one pound over weight will be allowed, instead of the customary three or four pounds...