Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of its drawbacks the Reading Period has probably been of benefit to student scholarship in many respects. Nevertheless there is no justification for construing all statistics into a blanket endorsement. The report has no weight in estimating the value of the Reading Period, since it says no more than that when classes are few excuses are few. Such obvious attempts at whitewash can hardly do more than prejudice an innovation which deserves careful study during a period of experimentation...
...press clipping printed below in quotation of one of the assistants in the library is hardly as conclusive as its manner would indicate. The CRIMSON of course has no pretension of passing an esthetic judgement on the Sargent murals, but the weight of opinion from such critics as Walter Pach quoted in these columns earlier in the year, coupled with the extreme reluctance of nearly all the Fine Arts department to comment officially on the paintings should justify the recent stand of this paper on the artistic phases of the controversy...
...title at stake is usually necessary nowadays to make a prizefight notable. Weight and power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
...thus far we have done nothing really new in aviation. The great thing that must be done, and along essentially new lines, is to get a new type of power plant which will produce more power with less weight...
...When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...