Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...association also passed a rule that hurdles must be of such weight and stability as to be neither readily displaced nor broken by a competitor striking them...
...smaller states have the optically a right to an equal vote; but who will doubt for a moment the moral effect which a is created by a force strong enough to back up national policies? The nations which control strong armies and navies have been a preponderance of weight in the Peace Conferences of the past, and they will continue to have this advantage in the future. A graphic in stance of this is the United States was able to reserve from arbitration by the Hague Tribunal "strictly American questions." That this reservation was acquiesced in by the European powers...
...greatest athletic specialty was trick and fancy skating, and before coming to Harvard he filled several public engagements in exhibitions. Although Quinn weighed only 140 pounds and was only 5 feet, 8 inches tall, he had many good track records. He was a sprinter as well as a weight thrower and jumper. His records, some of them unofficial, include the following: broad jump, 24 ft., 1-8 in.; high jump, 6 ft., 1 58 in.; pole-vault, 11 ft., 4 in.; high hurdles, 16 3-5 sec.; 100-yard dash, 10 3-5 sec.; 440-yard dash...
Three years ago Coach Quinn while throwing the 56-pound weight, received abdominal injuries from which he never recovered. His condition became serious during the fall, and at the end of the track practice he went to Virginia for a short vacation. On his return to Cambridge he was taken to the Massachusetts General Hospital, but a month ago his physicians gave up hope of his recovery, and Quinn returned to his home. He declined steadily until his death yesterday morning
...squad: 115-pound class, T. T. Mora '13; 125-pound class, H. B. Goodfriend '14, E. H. Whitney '15; 135-pound class, J. S. Zinssen '16; 145-pound class, W. E. Griffiths '14, E. Swigert '15; 158-pound class, W. R. Tyler '14 (captain), G. N. Brennan '15; heavy-weight, J. F. Stambaugh '13. Two pounds allowance will be given, and individual bouts will last 15 minutes...