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Word: weightedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course the tendency in judging the Yardlings is to look for stars with weight with a view to working them into the varsity. In that respect this present squad has been somewhat disappointing; there aren't any Spreyers or Lees here, but the brand of football displayed Saturday was aggressive and good, and should win more games before the season is over...

Author: By John W. Saliantins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

...cowboys sit up-and take notice last week was a rich Texas rancher's daughter, svelte, 17-year-old Sydna Yokley, who put on as spunky an exhibition of calf roping as has ever been seen east of Powder River: throwing and tying a calf twice her weight in about 40 sec. (topnotch calf ropers rarely do it in less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively in bed while racked by his thoughts. These brainstorms, believes Dr. Brickner, are convulsions of ideas, similar to the convulsions of muscles in more ordinary forms of epilepsy. Their discovery lends weight to the theory that the thinking process, in its bare physical foundation, is similar to other bodily processes such as walking or running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...with rounded edges and more chrome grille work. Four lines (two of them brand new) are priced $20 to $100 lower this year at $867 to $6,283. The new 160 & 180 (eight cylinders, 160 h.p.) replace the Super Eight and Twelve. Shop talk: big gains in power-to-weight ratio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Motormakers' Holiday | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Conant seems to believe that this reduction was made necessary by budgetary exigencies. But any such claim carries no weight at all when it is seen that, by salary readjustments in the permanent ranks--or merely by advancing these men to permanent positions with the same salaries which they held before--as many of the ten as were urgently needed could have been made associate professors and retained permanently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE | 10/14/1939 | See Source »

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