Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...posted, the horses with railbirds up took second and third money. No New Zealander raised an eyebrow. For it is a common occurrence Down Under-just as it was a common occurrence in the U. S. up to the turn of the Century. Only stipulation: the railbird must not weigh less than the original jockey...
...will weigh 1,700 pounds and be powered by a four-cylinder Ford engine (of the type first used in the famed Model A) driving all its four wheels...
London Telegraph's L. G. S. Payne, or London Times's Liddell Hart, are more inclined than the military "professionals" of the war departments to weigh intangible factors-and to be skeptical of physical achievements such as Germany's vaunted rearmament. Free lances argue that the men in the profession are partly interested in the propaganda value of releasing juicy figures regarding the strength of presumed enemies, partly taken in by the tremendous enthusiasm which attachés in various foreign nations develop for the particular military machines that come under their eyes...
...courses; and are applicable to other courses only to the extent that good teaching in one division implies good teaching in the other. We think Mr. Bunde's conclusions bear usually a likeness to truth: many of his comments seem reasonable, though marred by a lack of ability to weigh merits in a difficult and complex field against weakness, by a lack of the tolerance and appreciation which would make for a truer kind of truth than his sometimes thin reasoning confidently attains...
...excellent dual meet outfits, both undefeated, will be matched this afternoon. With Harvard slated to capture eight firsts to Dartmouth's seven, second and third places will weigh heavily in a contest that should see four or five new meet records, and possibly two new Harvard ones...