Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tarpon are Florida's gamiest fish, sailfish next. Tarpon do not run until early March. Sailfish, named from the large dorsal fin, measure six or seven feet, weigh 40 to 70 pounds. Strong, fierce, canny, four out of five get off the hook...
Gourmands saw further possibilities in the impending war with an upland tribe whose three offences were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had rescued a beautiful damsel from suicide, loved her, and carried her to his secret cave...
...physical standards to be met are likewise exacting. In addition to freedom from disease and deformity, the applicant must measure up to definite requirements of height and weight. For instance, at the age of 20 a man six feet in height must weigh at least 146 pounds; and the other ages and heights are graded accordingly. No man is admitted of less than five feet four inches in height...
Heeney is 29 years old, expects to weigh 200 pounds for the fight. Details of training make him sulky; he does not like the tea in the U. S. He is happy when dressed up in quietly tailored clothes and when friends are spoofing him. He delights in boasting about his healthy tribe back in New Zealand-his mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time...
...this tribunal to weigh against her the evidence of these officers and take her alone against the lot of them. The suggestion I make is that the officers [who examined Miss Savidge] thought they were not failing in their duty, if they helped to ensure that there should be no prosecution for perjury [of the constables who falsely arrested...