Word: weightedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Governor James V. ("Jimmy") Allred of Texas, 37; and Mrs. Jo Betsy Miller Allred; their third son; on the Sam Houston four-poster bed in Texas' Executive Mansion; at Austin (see p. 23). Weight: 9 Ib. Name: Sam Houston...
...older rocks of the Midwest, on the other hand, made most of their adjustments a long time ago and faults are puny and unimportant. Only 20,000 or 25,000 years ago, however, a sheet of ice a mile thick lay over the Great Lakes region. The tremendous weight of this pressed down the earth, which is now springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive...
...posts of Phillips Brooks House leaves the gate open for a critical appraisal of the usefulness of the president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer. There is reasonable justification for believing that the positions may be mere rewards for past services to the House; but no undergraduate position of such weight and value as the P.B.H. posts can be sinecures even for fagged veteran volunteers. The three men elected to the management of P.B.H. should be charged with duties equal to the size and volume of their post; they ought to control the policies of the only organization in Harvard which...
...members of the University except those on the Varsity team will be eligible for competition in classes ranging in weight from 118-pound to the unlimited. Final fights are scheduled for 4 o'clock on Wednesday...
...Anthony Adverse, Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind have all been of approximately 1,000-page length. Last week Meyer Levin's The Old Bunch (964 pages) gave wrist-weary readers another hefty handful. Aside from actual weight, however, The Old Bunch has less in common with its swollen sisters than with such half-starved gutter rats as James Farrell's Studs Lonigan. Realism of the cheapest dye, Author Levin's tale of Jews in Chicago is not so much a chronicle as chronic narrative. Gentile...