Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attention is called to the fact that absences before and after the one-day holidays on November 12 and November 22 will be closely scrutinized. Such absences weigh against a person in considering his whole record, especially in regard to Administrative Board action in the case of low grades, scholarships, recommendation to a prospective employer...
...official junket set an imposing Soviet seal on the Groza Government, just before the Council of Foreign Ministers was due to weigh its records in London (see INTERNATIONAL). But Rumania, like Bulgaria (see below), needed the imprimatur of the U.S. and Britain before it could get the peace treaty it sought. Not one but all of the Big Three were now acting tough. If Premier Groza had found light in the east, King Michael might also find it in the west...
...light of these first words and actions, thoughtful citizens could weigh their President only tentatively, but they had a fuller chance to size him up as a personality. He seemed to fit the advance notices as a classic product of rural Missouri-full of the unpretentiousness of farm folk, brimful of quiet vigor and determination...
...years of age . . . blind in one eye, weigh 124 pounds, as compared with my normal 160, and I know what it is like to be under Jap bombings, strafings and groundfire...
...copies of 500 books. To fit existing presses as well as G.I. pockets, the books are made in two sizes: half that of a standard digest-size magazine, and half that of a pulp magazine. Bound like pocket bird guides, they are printed in double columns of clear type, weigh only two to four ounces...