Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil has been within the orbit of U. S. influence because of two things and two things only: U. S. financial help and U. S. military might. Last week both of these seemed to weigh less as Adolf Hitler and his army continued their march across Europe capturing riches as they went...
...weigh these arguments again. By extending our economic aid to the Allies, we make an Allied victory more certain, and we lessen our chances of entering the war. It is only when the Allies are in danger of disastrous rout that the full forces of pro-war pressure will be unleashed. Only in this way can our impartial voice have a right to be heard in the peace treaty which will mold the future of the world...
...National Geographic Society, unearthed in Veracruz a carved stone head six feet high. This year, hacking around in the Tabasco jungle, he discovered five more heads, several bigger than the Veracruz find. Last week the National Geographic Society released a picture of one of them, estimated to weigh 20 tons or more. It is 8 ft. i in. high, 20 ft. 10 in. around. Flat-faced, blunt-featured, almost earless, capped by a queer headpiece, it looks something like a subthyroid football player...
...Requiring a reviewing Court to weigh evidence, substitute its judgment for the Board's, "has been universally condemned by students of American law." Half the legal experts think this scheme would paralyze administrative agencies, half think it would paralyze the courts...
...England's great preachers, William Orchard was trained as a Presbyterian but attained fame as a liberal in a Congregational pulpit-King's Weigh House Church in London's West End. He, who once used to keep away from church at Easter because he had his doubts about the Resurrection, became increasingly Catholic. He instituted Mass, the Reserved Sacrament, the Benediction, bells, candles and incense in his Nonconformist church. When a well-fed parishioner demanded to know why, in Mass, he had been asked to worship "a bit of bread," Dr. Orchard snapped: "Well, sir, we happen...