Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...divorcing the controversial arms-embargo section from the less controversial title-and-carry provisions. Although New Hampshire's Charles Tobey had proposed this split in a sincere desire to get U. S. shipping immediately legislated out of combat areas abroad, the effect would have been to put the weight of debate solely on the Isolationist issue: sale of arms to belligerents...
...Crimson editors have charged that many prominent educators and religious leaders are using the great weight of their positions to jeopardize American neutrality by publicly and boldly espousing the Allied cause...
...leading ministers and educators can only tend to drive them into it. This propaganda is far more dangerous than any emanating from overseas, for the very reason that it is accepted as the gospel truth by many more people. The lofty positions of these men give their words weight beyond their worth, so that they should give long and serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon and so openly the words that may send to destruction the lives in their charge. They...
Koufman is an excellent pass-receiver, far above MacKinney in this respect, so Harlow can count on at least one reliable receiving operative in the line. In addition, he is a hard, sure tackler, and his weight will serve to anchor the lighter right side of the line a little more securely...
...four best guards, Brechta and Mendelson, are of the watchcharm variety, but they can afford to give away some weight. The other two, Hunt and Smith, are a pair of big, active fellows. The center, Frick, is a terror, and his reserve, Snyder, is far above the average...