Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threatened exhaustion of the city or its extinction in war. There are in society powerful mutations of thought and art pointing to a healthy future, and though "it needs a terrific exertion of social force to overcome the inertia, to alter the direction of movement," Author Mumford throws his weight with them...
...With the weight events scheduled for this afternoon, the annual University handicap track meet gets under way today. Open to all members of the University, the meet has drawn a large entry list. Flat races, hurdle events, and the jumps will be held tomorrow afternoon...
Progressive schools in Czechoslovakia, like those in the U. S., stress moppets' health (see cut), and teach children informally: let them learn arithmetic by keeping records of their height and weight; teach them reading by the "global method" (to recognize whole words instead of plodding through them letter by letter...
...pince-nezed, gouty Offenbach was not satisfied with being the most popular light-weight composer in the world. All his life he nursed an ambition to write a serious opera. He fulfilled his ambition just before he died, in the fantastic, melodious Tales of Hoffmann. Today Composer Offenbach's operettas are mostly forgotten. But Tales of Hoffmann still holds the boards in most opera houses, and the famous Barcarolle from its third act is still played by restaurant & café orchestras all over the world...
...Magurn, another veteran, looks best at first defense as does Eddie Greble, a Sophomore. Both men make up for a lack of weight with speed and shifty running ability. Greble was a high scorer on his Freshman team...