Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned a suicide that would later send his hated cousin to a murderer's end, is cannily cleared up by quietly effective Miss Pomeroy, trained nurse turned detective - and a sterling addition to the slim com pany of believable female sleuths. Extra good writing and well-sustained suspense outweigh a certain terminal haziness...
...Savoy. He was a mainstay of the band, and is certainly one of the top altoists of the day. The three stars should make for a very pleasant afternoon. There are the usual drawbacks of between-the-sets backers who try to play too, but the assets should outweigh the liabilities...
...them are reading books and articles. Most of them are talking about the postwar world in their own language. They are the world's two billion people, and in the broad sweep of history, as they struggle to gain what they want, their hopes and their works outweigh the promises of leaders and all the plans of the planners...
...graders began to take up the offensive. "What get us peeved," they complained, "is the continual use of such foul expressions as 'denote, delimit, maximizing, deem, feel,' and above all the inevitable 'pros outweigh the cons, therefore such should be done.' Sometimes the boys get confused, and talk about Silton when they mean Babcock, or keep 'ringing up sales on the cashier,' for ten pages...
...hitting power than their Japanese counterparts. Example: the Lexington had 90 planes, almost as many as the Kaga and Akagi combined. Thus, while the loss of a single carrier may hit the U.S. harder than a similar loss hits Japan, three or four U.S. carriers in the Pacific would outweigh the known remainder of the Japanese fleet in plane power...