Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weigh the private administrative policy of even so great an institution as Harvard against what seems to be a palpable national need and national duty, is in itself an attitude lacking a certain quality of courage and boldness. But to let this private administrative policy and the arguments which may be marshalled to its support, overweigh that clear need, is to distort principle in all cases as well as to distort judgement in this...
BARTENDER-Experienced old-time bartender wanted for new saloon: must have pleasing personality and be six feet tall, weigh two hundred pounds. Apply after 2 p.m., Sloppy Joe's Saloon, 121 Granby street...
Leaning from the control car Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. ("Doc") Wiley, executive officer, who looks astonishingly like Herbert Hoover, speaks into a microphone leading to loudspeakers on the mooring-mast: "Everybody weigh off!" The ground crew of 250 slack their lines a trifle that officers may gauge the vessel's trim. Water ballast spills out here and there until the big ship rides evenly. Then from Commander Wiley: "Stand by to up ship!"-and his work for the moment is over. Within the control car he motions to his skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery ("Rosie") Rosendahl, that...
...fishes tell about the big ones they get away from, Jabish Holmes's tuna could truthfully tell a tall story. Jabish ("Horse Mackerel") Holmes Jr., onetime Harvard footballer and hockey goalguard, is six feet in length, has attained a size some four feet around the middle, would weigh easily 250 lb. on his own fish scales...
Admitted by the Shipping Board is the fact that Banker Chapman paid too much for the Lines in 1929. This will weigh with them during their conferences this week in Washington. The Franklin offer makes no effort to correct this, could not be expected to, but Steamship Row was betting that when the decision came, U. S. Lines, Inc., bulwarked by Pacific Dollars, would continue to operate the ships. In other harbors the U. S. merchant marine progressed with less difficulty last week...