Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throwing its full weight into the fight against the present system of tutoring schools in Cambridge, the Advocate proclamation states that it will do "all in our power to aid the Harvard CRIMSON in its campaign...
Admission to a restricted Vic-Dance in the Lowell House Common Room this Saturday night will be at the rate of one-half cent per pound of weight of female companion, Irving Clark, Jr. '41, chairman, announced...
Returning with four men of last year's Varsity 150-pound crew, this year's light weight boat looks like it should give its opponents a good stiff run for their money. Last year's boat was only defeated when it was cut out of Henley finals in England, so a large returning group should mean a great deal. It seems fairly conclusive however, that the light weights will not venture upon foreign waters this year. The boating: Bailey, stroke; Turner, seven; Pierce, six; Gifford, five; Hazard, four; Crocker, three; Koeniger, two; Gilkey, bow; and Larner...
...carefully selected audience Conductor Stokowski played full-weight symphonic programs. But he punctuated them with speeches, quips, unprogrammed surprises. He held conversations with them across the footlights, let them wriggle, whistle, cheer, shout, sing, throw paper darts. Once, when they dared him to, he brought down the wrath of Philadelphia's Tories by playing the Internationale. Stokowski's Youth Concerts became the most jam-packed events of the Philadelphia Orchestra's season. Optimistic highbrows felt that a sizable percentage of Philadelphia's jitterbugs had been saved for Beethoven...
...phenomenal William Lyon Phelps, playboy of the humanities, Dale Carnegie of the critics, "the world's champion endorser." In the '20s William Lyon Phelps had passed his peak with undergraduates. But with U. S. readers he was at the height of his power, carried more weight than any critic before or since. To his praise were due the sensational sales of A. S. M. Hutchinson's saccharine If Winter Comes, of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, many another novel of equal flimsiness...