Word: outweighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This first report of the Foundation, established in 1950, was transmitted to Congress by President Truman, who expressed satisfaction with its progress, saying that its results "far outweigh its cost...
...sympathetic view of a German soldier. But unlike Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
...appeared then that the value of having a dean in the House would outweigh any disadvantages that moved in with him. According to the plan the House dean would coordinate the new tutorial system, seeing to it that every concentrator in one of the five large departments had an opportunity for group tutorial with other students in his House, and it possible, with a tutor on the House stall. The new emphasis on the House system seemed a worthwhile gain...
...degrees they assume that the population center is at the geographical center. (For square degrees that contain large towns they make special calculations.) Then they multiply the population of each square degree by the distance north or south of the tentative center. If those to the south of it "outweigh" those to the north, they move the center until they get a balance; same operation for east & west...
Those things which all men hold in common are beginning to outweigh enormously those things which separate them. That was not new to Goethe or Pascal or Burke; but in this sense it is astonishingly new to many of my own generation. My young friends in Cambridge have shown me over and over again that to them it is as simple as breathing that all societies are but variants of one another, that somehow all wars from now on are civil wars and the human adventure is much the same in all times and all places...