Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Advisor, the heads of the various departments all supply advice and information. If this morning he learns what concentration means, the purpose of the meeting is accomplished. In the last analysis it remains up to each student to gather together the facts of the subject and weigh them for himself. More than fostering a realization of this the meeting is unlikely...
...Model Assembly of the League of Nations at the University of Michigan will point the moral of international amity to a fascinated, if small audience. Inspired with enthusiasms as diverse as the points of the compass, aided by officials of State, it assembles with fitting ceremony to weigh opinions and swap stories. At first glance, the affair seems to be without the pale of ordinary collegiate interest. But at the present time, when colleges are admittedly the fountain from which all blessings flow, their taking the initiative in the unselfish service of moulding public opinion becomes a privilege...
...cast, Cecile Dixon and J. M. Kerrigan. The others are so conscious of the whimsy with which they are dealing that it vanishes in their eager hands. This is particularly true of Mary Ellis and in a lesser degree of Basil Sydney. However, not even heavy performances can completely weigh down ebullient dialog. There are worse places in life than Pooh Corner...
When asked if the mechanical man could walk, Captain Richards stated that without a sense of balance, nothing, on two legs, could walk. At the suggestion of a gyroscope, he said, that the necessary mechanism would weigh far too much and that it would fall at the least irregularity of the path...
...Nations. Poland has been trying, not unsuccessfully, to make Danzig Polish in everything but name. Poland objected to Danzig's signing the Kellogg treaty, and in the interests of keeping peace at his great peace party, Mr. Kellogg agreed that Danzig should not be invited. Diplomats who weigh fine points can and will interpret that as a U. S. acknowledgment of Poland's authority over Danzig...