Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weigh-ins were held yesterday at the I.A.B. for the House intramural wrestling tournament which will begin at 3:30 this afternoon, Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics, announced last night...
...record 80 entrants are likely to weigh in this evening for the inter-House boxing tournament, Henry N. Lamar, boxing coach, said yesterday...
...English, mathematics, history, and science to determine the level at which a student should work. But no provision is made for the use of essay tests to supplement the objective techniques used at the present time. Such tests are necessary, for in addition to measuring writing ability, they could weigh a student's grasp of concepts, not facts alone...
...given last rites. This week, on doctors' orders to take life easier, 45-year-old Frank Leahy resigned. Said Leahy, in a rare mood of relaxation: "It's a tremendous weight off my mind to get out of the game, much as I love it. I will weigh three or four business offers...
Strong, Sensitive Scale. The most accurate chemist's scales, those that use quartz fibers as springs, can weigh only tiny quantities. Scales big enough to handle good-sized samples are not nearly as sensitive. Last week Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins University told about a scale that he has developed which is both strong and sensitive. Its beam teeters on a finely polished knife edge of boron carbide (almost as hard as diamond), resting on the same material. The edge is so sharp that the pressure on its minute bearing surface...