Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Yale assistant coaches saw four schoolboys who did not weigh 150 pounds apiece, line up as the backfield of a little team from Maryland, they sent in all their substitutes and turned away their faces. At the end of the first half, Maryland had 14 points, Yale 10. Whistles blew, the Yale regulars ran in. Score at the end of the game: Yale 43, Maryland...
...Brown line is one to be conjured with. Four of the players weigh over 200 pounds. Smith, the injured tackle, who has just returned to the line-up, tipping the scales at 214. The other tackle, Talbot, weighs only 174, but is considered one of the strongest linemen in the East. Against Dartmouth he was especially brilliant, stopping the great Oberlander effectively...
...vibration of traffic in Manhattan, even at dead of night, is sufficient to disturb so delicate an instrument. The test of Einstein's theory will be made "somewhere in Illinois." Thereafter, Prof. Hartsough will enlarge his scales and attempt to weigh molecules and atoms; and will consider commercial offers from people eager to try his instruments (he has made three) in locating oil and minerals...
...determine the matter would be to weigh small objects, observing whether variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...study is even more important than what to study. Fully half of every Freshman class do not know how to study. Study is not mere reading, neither is it memorizing. "Read to weigh and consider", said Francis Bacon. That is study as every student must learn, if the word "student" is to be more than a title of courtesy...