Word: outweigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dick Daley, Candidate Austin had obvious merits to outweigh the fact that outside of Chicago he is practically unknown ("Who is he?" asked a dismayed downstate delegate when the word first got to Springfield). Richard Bevan Austin. 55, is an Episcopalian and will add diversity to a ticket on which there are already four Catholics. He has few enemies in the party, and his personal life-as family man (three sons), Chicago attorney (since 1926), assistant state's attorney (16 years) and judge (since 1953)-has been impeccable...
...finished picture does not altogether overleap convention; it looks staged, and has a flattering slickness. Yet its virtues far outweigh its faults. The Walnut Street backdrop gives a fresh-air feeling to what would otherwise be a Vulcan's cave. The young apprentice nicely complements Lyon's robust maturity. His big feet spread and firmly planted, his heavy arm and hand holding the hammer with negligent authority. Blacksmith Pat Lyon himself easily dominates the huge canvas. He seems truly at home in it-as the workingman has long since come to be in the nation...
...criticism to the fact that the guards used profanity and "on occasions" slapped the prisoners. It asked that these practices stop. But for all the moderate words, Georgia (the state motto: Wisdom, Justice and Moderation) and the U.S. would search a long time before they found evidence to outweigh the act of 41 desperate...
...herds of dwarfs for study. Last week Professor E. W. Stringam of the University, of Manitoba was tenderly nursing a bull calf which he and assistants had delivered by Caesarean section from a dwarf cow. The calf, sired by a normal young bull, is normal in proportions. It will outweigh its mother in three months, but it probably carries the taint of hereditary dwarfism...
...defensive work, moreover, has repeatedly collapsed in second half play. Sophomore goalie Dick Mackinnon held M.I.T. to only five goals, for the lowest enemy total all year, but he will have to look still sharper against Penn to outweigh weak defensive play...