Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much does your breath weigh? Professor A. G. McAdie '85 proposes to determine the weight of the collective breadth of everyone attending the Symposium at the Union March 4. When questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, Professor McAdie explained that his method would be to determine, by the use of delicate weighing instruments, the relative humidity of the atmosphere before the lecture and after the room had been occupied for several minutes...
...still larger than some of the trade had anticipated, and in consequence cotton prices at first fell off somewhat on the N. Y. Cotton Ex change, but only to rise still higher when the full significance of the figures was realized. The bales with which the estimate deals weigh 500 pounds, and thus the crop should amount to 4,821,333,000 pounds. At the average farm price of 31c, which prevailed on Dec. 1, the whole crop should be worth $1,494,613,230. It is the sixth crop in our history worth a billion dollars or over...
Over ten years later, on November 5, 1892, Harvard met Cornell on a muddy field with rain falling constantly. At this game, "someone had the sensible thought to weigh the players in uniform before they went on the field and again after the game. It was found that there was an average increase of twenty-five pounds in contrast to an average loss in weight...
...Light Heavyweight Championship is officially vacant because Battling Siki, Senegalese, was disbarred by the French Boxing Commission. In America Mike McTigue, the Irishman, is generally regarded as Light Heavyweight champion because he defeated Siki in Dublin last St. Patrick's Day. But since Siki failed to weigh in before that contest it is not recognized by the international body...
Party leaders are naturally expected to make golden prophecies and it is for the layman to stand by and weigh the chances. In this case an examination of recent history will give Senator. Underwood's prophecy a fair foundation. Although the 1920 election hurled a Democratic administration from its seat with the condemnatory roar of a great plurality, the tables were turned in 1922, a scant two years later, in the state and congressional elections. The fickle plebes had grown so sour upon Republican administration that a good Republican governor in New York was turned out, Senator Lodge of Massachusetts...