Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SEVERAL of the Freshman crew weigh over 180 pounds...
...yard handicap run, 440-yard handicap hurdle - race, 20 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams...
Such burden on thy mind would heavy weigh...
...Sunday Herald gives an account of a wonderful light-weight six-oar of the Dauntless Boat-Club of New York. Their record shows what training and good management will do. The heaviest man in this crew is 145 pounds in weight, while the stroke and bow each weigh 115, and the average weight of the crew is only 131. Last year they defeated, among others, the Neptune Six, composed of such men as Kennedy of Yale, King of Cornell, Riley the sculler, Johnson, Keator, and Shand, - a crew which in weight, age, and reputation far surpassed them. The record...
...Undoubtedly the men who resign have their private reasons for so doing, and into these reasons it is of course not our province to inquire. It often seems, however, as if they looked on one side of the question only. Before accepting a position of importance a man should weigh well everything that might be disagreeable to him; and after he has once accepted it is only just to the society that, in spite of difficulties, he should keep on. In many cases it is possible to get another man for the place, and the harm done...