Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being suspicious? And why should University Hall, in the interests of its own convenience, work a hardship on such a group of men whose existence in the unhealthy atmosphere of today should be jealously guarded? The Dean's Office has allowed a small matter of bureaucratic efficiency to outweigh much larger considerations...
These qualities might outweigh Halls' pat, nick-of-time ending, some weakness in its basic plot motivation and a tendency to slop over into histrionics. What betrays the picture is a crude compromise with its producers' ideas of topical needs. Thus, the mood of tension and fear that goes before the amphibious attack is suddenly dissipated when the landing itself takes place to the jauntily aggressive tune of the Marine Corps hymn as it might be played by a recruiting band. Even worse is a final battlefield oration by Actor Jack
...long dark filaments and great round blobs, some so huge that it takes light 100 years (at 186,000 miles per second) to flash across their diameters. Made chiefly of hydrogen, mixed in places with dust of heavier elements, they are thinner than the finest laboratory "vacuum " but they outweigh all the stars scattered through and among them...
...enlist the aid of the Prussian officer corps in the reestablishment of any kind of German force, Friedrich said. It is this elite group, however, more than any other, which was responsible for Hitler. The political effect of putting power into the hands of these men again would far outweigh any purely military advantages of German remilitarization, Friedrich continued...
Wary of official handouts after twelve years of Dr. Goebbels' force-feeding, German editors have grown to trust Amerika-Dienst because it does not slant its stories. Arnot figures that the good in U.S. life will outweigh the bad in any factual presentation. Once an editor in Nürnberg rejected an Amerika-Dienst picture of hundreds of U.S. workers' automobiles parked in front of a factory because "My readers will say it's just so much propaganda." Arnot came back with a story discussing high prices and unemployment, but also documenting the fact that...