Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale matches the contestants must weigh in Saturday noon. Only one pound over weight will be allowed. Under the old rules which will be in effect Saturday, the competitors will wrestle for 9 minutes, unless there is a fall. If the match goes the limit, the decision will be awarded to the man who has been on top 60 seconds more than his opponent. If neither man has obtained this advantage, the opponents will wrestle two extra 3-minute periods...
Each contestant is required to pass a physical examination before he will be allowed to enter the ring and the times for the examinations will be announced later. On Tuesday any men who are scheduled to fight in the preliminaries must weigh in at the Hemenway Gymnasium between 3.30 and 5 o'clock, while all those who are to be in the Friday bouts must weigh the day before at the same times even though they have already weighed for the preliminaries. Two pounds leeway will be allowed in the weight of each class so that men who are near...
...forecasting the 1922-1923 business conditions the committee has found it necessary to weigh the principle factors, favorable and unfavorable, which will control the course of business this year and next, and second to determine how they will affect the new business cycle which is now developing. Illustrated by statistical and graphical charts the bulletin thoroughly reviews the situation in agriculture, manufacture, money, and credit, general business, and treats on the European conditions which are affecting business in the United States...
...touching; it has even tempted us to rhapsodize after the manner of our more light footed editorial contemporary--on the emotions which arise in us upon reading this simple and unaffected expression of kindness. It is a pleasant world, after all, we exclaim. What are the little grievances which weigh upon us at times; the trifling annoyances of life which would seem to be the workings of a divine, but not to us benevolent Providence--what are they compared to the sweet joy of fellowship, the kindly acts of friends...
...made the following statement: "A jury in the average criminal case will give a fair verdict eight times out of ten. But it is different in civil cases involving money and business. In such cases, unless jurors can be found who have had business experience and are trained to weigh facts on their merits, the verdict is too apt to be in line with the small prejudices of small men". The average jury sitting on civil cases nowadays is little more than a farce. Perhaps two of the men will pay attention to the evidence and try to come...