Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Were not only ready but eager to weigh...
Judging from past assignment, Juniors this year may expect to board destroyers for their summer training, while students in the two lower classes will probably weigh anchor on battleships. It is not known as yet whether the bases recently acquired from the British will be visited...
Basically, 150-lb. football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more than 154 Ib. the day of the game), there is a premium on precision, speed, timing. A lightweight eleven's downfield blocking is often something even the pros might be proud of. Since Fifties play for fun rather than headlines, their strategies are more daring, more spectacular. Not unusual...
...working on lesson No. 2-keep the product up to date. Because ovens and families have grown smaller, big turkeys (20 to 30 Ib.) meet sales resistance. So the Department of Agriculture bred "streamlined" turkeys. The new birds go from egg to table in six months, are white-feathered, weigh up to 10 Ib., have more white meat. Last week, Manhattan's R. H. Macy capitalized on modernized, white-feathered, turkeys. Adopting Cadillac's 1933 limited-edition policy, it offered 750 "birds divine" to first comers, sold all but the biggest...
...exaggerate our fears. Many experienced observers of the recent European tragedy have sounded the alarm for the United States. Each one of us, all the citizens of the country, must decide to what extent we as a nation should heed the warnings. We must balance the probabilities. We must weigh the consequences of action or inaction. And though time is pressing, we must come to our decision by the process of free debate. For in a democracy no drastic step can be taken with hope of ultimate success unless public opinion registers strong approval...