Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crusade for moral rearmament which appears to be spreading rapidly." Signers included not only Conservative committee members and two onetime Lord Mayors, but Laborites like Arthur Henderson, J. R. Clynes (onetime Home Secretary), John McGovern. Last week in the Times much the same approval was expressed by an even weightier assemblage of 17 names. Among them: Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, the Marquess of Salisbury, Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Clarendon, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl of Cork & Orrery, the Earl of Lytton, Viscount Sankey, Lord Trenchard, Lord Stamp. Said these noble lords, while...
...goal of the national scholarships is to reach students from every state in the Union. President Hutchins assumes that the Conant plan merely attempts to break down the obstacle of a prospective student's geographical remoteness from Harvard. It is far more than that, and based upon a much weightier conviction. In President Conant's own words, "The belief which underlies the entire project is that there will always be a few young men of exceptional promise, but without adequate means of paying for a university education, to whom it is well worth society's while to furnish every opportunity...
...Weightier than any other testimony was a letter from Secretary of the Interior Wilbur. In it he reversed his attitude that the oil industry must help itself. Independents jumped for joy when they heard that he had said: "If proration is the logical method of control of supply, it would seem to be logical to apply it to imports...
Traditionally critical of the rest of the world, Harvard men occasionally scrutinize Harvard, say sharp things about themselves and their traditions.* Weightier than most critiques during the year is the senior oration at Class Day exercises. Excerpts from last week's oration by Senior Orator Edward Mortimer Morris Warburg...