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Word: weighs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was not much, perhaps, to weigh against the majority opinion. But Columbia's Frankel did far better than the Birmingham News. In the three weeks since the paper invited the state's lawyers to sound off, the News has not received a single letter - either for the prosecution or the defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lawyers: Non-Discussion in Alabama | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth of a knot? What about an unsinkable, watertight canvas bag, roomy enough to stow cameras, film, wallets, watches and jewelry? He certainly needs the new $200 German binoculars that weigh less than a pound, float, and-reflect flashlight rays in the dark. Not to mention the latest sonar-system depth finder, which costs a mere $299.95 and reads up - or down - to 100 fathoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Sea Fever | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...chorus was less satisfying, as should be expected from the actors and actresses cast in it. They are apprentices to the stars, waiting patiently at the wings for their chance. They must still learn how to weigh each word, as the stars themselves have learned in their own rise...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Wrapping a Drive. To further entice customers, Oldsmobile has wrapped its front wheel drive into a handsome, five-passenger hardtop that will be the biggest yet of Detroit's growing fleet of cars with fastback roofs. The Holiday will be 210 in. long, weigh about 4,100 Ibs., come equipped with a 425-cu.-in. engine and cost about $4,400-a price that places it in direct competition with Ford's Thunderbird, which still dominates the luxury sports-car market. To absorb some of the Holiday's development costs, G.M. is making many of its parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: New Drive at G.M. | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...theme: people are more important than systems. Discussing his proposal that the Federal government should seek a more equitable basis for selecting Federal grand juries, he declares, "The big question is whether the government is willing to probe into our whole system of law, whether it is willing to weigh its concept of law and the sanctity of the Federal system against the lives of the people being killed in Mississippi...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Bob Moses | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

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