Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn the scales of public opinion, scales that for weeks had maintained a queazy balance between moral indignation at ruthless international aggression in Spain and China and a feeling that the U. S. must not soil the spirit of peace by taking even a moral stand. To add weight to the push, he quoted from James Hilton's Lost Horizon a grim passage describing what the world may have in store...
...together again, running his private finances which included directorships in Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp., Chase National Bank, Mergenthaler Linotype Co., National Biscuit Co. and Seaboard Oil Co. A liberal in matters of economics, he was too much of an Old Guard Republican in political reputation to carry much weight in 1936. After a summer of cruising on his yacht Avalon and two weeks of slight illness that had caused his doctors no alarm, Financier Mills went quietly to his final accounting...
...Utrecht University, where much of the pioneer work on them was done. In 1928 a tall, dark young man named Fritz Warmolt Went, who began his botanical career at Utrecht under the tutelage of a distinguished father, got enough of one auxin in high concentration to measure its molecular weight. Three years later Kögl and his associates identified an auxin in urine, isolated it in pure form. This is called Auxin A. In 1934 the Utrecht researchers followed with Auxin B and heteroauxin. Heteroauxin has the astonishing effect of making roots sprout from the stem in shaggy masses...
...secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
Probably the best way to give this varied group of measures their optimum weights would be to ask a group of recognized leaders in the field of higher education to express their judgments at to their relative importance as crietria and then average the results of these judgments. No such attempt is here made. Instead, they have all been given equal weight in combining them into a single composite measure by the method of average ranks. Each of the institutions has been ranked in each of the 28 features according to the data given in Mr. Foster's tables...