Word: weight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent among, recent football reforms is the suggestion offered by the Brown Daily Herald of creating 150-pound varsity football teams which should represent universities along with regular elevens. The idea of light-weight football teams has its analogy in crew, where the custom has been long-standing...
...greatest number of men, we feel that the move is attempting to cover ground which has already been thoroughly pre-empted and sown. The comparison between lightweight crews and football teams is slightly tenuous, inasmuch as physical limitations are more definitely prescribed in crew than in football. Lack of weight or height precludes the possibility of pulling a sweep on the varsity crew, whereas football is full of notable exceptions where weight has given way to courage and power to technique...
...consideration of these factors seems to give a certain weight to the theory that the discount rate of the central bank of a country is not the ultimate determinant in a country's credit position, particularly when public opinion refuses to take cognizance of the message of the rate, and when--as has been the case in the late years in the United States--the credit policy is controlled by other factors than the gold reserve. In view of these facts it does not seem too much to say that stereotyped financial theory and business practice are rapidly being...
...them in New Zealand. Flabby Maoris desperately fight with sticks and spears, standing face to face in the Japanese manner, all because one chief's son has killed his rival for the hand of another's daughter. The story is simple enough to keep moving under its weight of rather dull local color-Maoris feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good...
...woman once called up to ask for full details about the rock of Gibraltar-its weight, size, and height; and the most remarkable part of that story was that we were able to give them to her!" Thus answered Karl Dahlquist, for seven years in charge of the general University information bureau, when asked about some of the inner workings of the office...