Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaders, with Wagner's crew looked for to push the Californian to the limit. Ewing Walker, Sam Goddard, and Bob Fowler form the nucleus of Anderson's eight, while Captain Shem Gray and Bruce Pirnie give the added zip to Wagner's boatload. Everett Henry, Brown, 3rd, will weigh down the stern of the Anderson octet...
...most hair raising experience took place in the Belgian Congo when he was poaching elephants. Since elephant tusks weigh 400 to 500 pounds and ivory is worth $2.50 to $5.00 a pound, many hunters took advantage of the weak administration in the Congo to shoot elephants illegally. Elephant hunting can be very dangerous because although the huge beasts are clumsy and have poor eyesight, they have a keen smell and become infuriated at the presence...
Last week Anne Lindbergh made feature-story headlines. At a Manhattan hospital she bore her fourth child (see p. 67). Next day a Manhattan publisher produced her third book, The Wave of the Future (Harcourt, Brace; $1). The book did not weigh nearly so much as the baby, but it was more coherent. In it she said, gently and more gracefully, as a good wife often does, some of the things that her husband had been loudly and awkwardly trying...
...measure its success in teaching democracy, many a school adopted a new kind of report card, rates its pupils in such qualities as intellectual curiosity, initiative, ability to weigh evidence, executive ability, ability to influence others, a sense of humor...
...army, the extent to which we should participate in the war, and the direction of our diplomacy are not to be solved merely by urging youth to stop disbelieving in ideals and principles. To decide the host of issues which confront him, the citizen must inform himself, and weigh and analyze the evidence in the light of possible alternatives and concrete, practical effect. Waldo Frank is a writer who agrees completely with Adler and Cram about the destruction wrought by the prevalence of empirical nationalism in intellectual circles and its penetration down through the educational system. Yet, in his latest...