Word: weigh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That the new coach should turn out to be an All-American guard, should weigh 331 pounds, and should be the best after-dinner speaker since Jimmy Conzelman (now of the Chicago Cardinals), were just added attractions. The only thing Herman Hickman had to be was a bright young...
Landing a good line coach didn't end Herman Hickman's plaintive cries of "I have no line!" After feasting since 1943 on a flock of corn and cornpone-fed Cadet candidates, it must have been a sad realization to meet a group of linemen who didn't all weigh over 200 pounds...
Colorful John DiGangi is no longer around, but two Crusader linemen weigh over 230 and the others tip the scales at close to that mark. The backfield combines more brawn with shiftiness and speed...
However, the atmosphere of university study serves to damp predictions of disaster or heaven-on-earth, the President said. A scholar has the luxury to weigh events and suspend judgment. "It might not be far wrong to say that throughout the University the major portion of the efforts of the student is directed to studying problems or situations, not with the purpose of learning the 'right' answer, but with the avowed intent of evoking a critical attitude and stimulating imaginative thought...
...airplanes in this formidable and exciting operation probably pack less coal into Berlin in one day than can be carried in one barge on the Rhine. It is painful to watch German workmen pour the small lumps into scales and weigh them out to the precise 110 pounds. To an American watching the airlift there is a sense of both degradation and satisfaction. But however momentary your anger at this unnatural and uneconomic thing, you get an abiding satisfaction that we are able...